On 20/04/07, Brian Aker <brian@stripped> wrote:
> I would not always assume that. While there are certainly a lot of
> database that can not fit into ram, there are a lot that have an
> active data set that can be fit into RAM (and given the prevalence of
> 64bit chips this is very viable now a days).
Hi Brian,
Not *always*, agreed, but you have to be very careful with the future.
Most "small hacks" tend to run for decades
(http://www.laputan.org/mud/) thus, what is small today can be quite
huge tomorrow. It's not seldom I see small hacks failing today for
that reason, and fixing a small hack, often severely hacked over and
over, is a nightmare.
Also, IMVHO, the assumption of "hardware is cheap" is a bit of
laziness, like: "we don't have to do it properly because `hardware is
cheap`". I'd rather to think of 64bit architecture for the amount of
bits it can deal per cycle than for its addressing capacity.
cheers,
--renato
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