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		tliltocatl 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel Not until we have technology for exabyte-scale memories (read: not any time soon).

nick__m 4 months ago [–]

Having 128bit in the adress bus is useless, no questions there !

But what about pointers provenance, tagging and capability. Having more bits would be useful to implement something like CHERI.

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