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Re:Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 by daeken on Sunday October 11, 2009 @05:07AM (#874551)
128-bit addressing is great and all, but it's completely useless (for the near future) unless we have finer-grained pagetables. Give me the ability to do very, very fine-grained pages (let me bring it down to 16 bytes if i want to) and suddenly a lot of new things open up. For a long time, I've been thinking about representing 3d data spatially in memory using virtual memory mapping, but the granularity of existing systems makes it extremely inefficient.

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