Subj : Re: virtual addresses
To   : comp.programming
From : Bill Cunningham
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 11:54 pm


> So you think your applications did not grow in the meantime?
> (OO bloatware!)
>
> how may windows do you keep open now? How many did you keep open on
> your first XP box?
>
> The hardware supports an upper limit of 4Gigabytes of logical memory on
> a 32bit address space. So even if your first XP had a practical limit
> of only 25% of that, that is per application, so the page file is never
> going away.
>
> Never underestimate the power of programmers to consume all the
> available memory space.
>
>  Ed

    Especially the iostream library. Huge. Even when stripped of symbols.
Stdio.h not so bad.

Bill

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