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1. sciencesama ◴[] No.45378924[source]
Will there be A 128bit revolution coming soon ?
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2. Avalaxy ◴[] No.45378971[source]
Why would there be?
3. tliltocatl ◴[] No.45378993[source]
Not until we have technology for exabyte-scale memories (read: not any time soon).
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4. nick__m ◴[] No.45379502[source]
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.

5. seabrookmx ◴[] No.45380489[source]
Yes, it's called IPV6 :)
6. floxy ◴[] No.45380640[source]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#AVX...