extreme mem usage under amd64 arch ?

[Astrodog]

On 4/7/06, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Astrodog <astrodog at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Please consider what AMD64 is, exactly, and what it means for
>  > something to be 64-bit, as opposed to 32-bit. On a 32 bit processor,
>  > all ints, and pointers take up 32 bits of memory. So, for every int,
>  > and pointer, you use 4 Bytes. On a 64-bit processor, all ints, and
>  > pointers take up 64-bits of memory.
>
> No.  You're right with the pointers, but ints are always
> 4 bytes on both i386 and amd64.
>

D'oh. Stupid i386, getting me used to sizeof(int) == sizeof(*).

I blame Intel.

Projection is a wonderful thing,

--- Harrison Grundy


> Best regards
>    Oliver
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