D 64-bit ?

[Sean Kelly]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Daniel Ribeiro Maciel wrote:
>>> Who still use a 32-bit computer these days anyways.
>>
>> Donald Knuth does.  He's complained about not being able to leverage 
>> the additional registers in a 64-bit CPU without having to use 64-bit 
>> pointers though.  See:
>>
>> http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html
>>
>> "A Flame About 64-bit Pointers"
> 
> What a coincidence. Only yesterday I read that following a link from 
> reddit about Knuth giving up sending checks as rewards for bug 
> discovery. (It turns out that many people put photocopies of his checks 
> on the Web as bragging rights, and a bug in the banking system allows 
> anyone who sees an ABA + check number to easily withdraw money from that 
> account.)

I read it for the same reason :-)  Funny that it would be relevant today.


Sean