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> Plus it assumes that pointers only have 48 bits with rest are zeros (true for AMD, ARM and Intel)

Except when it isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5-level_paging

That's not something you're likely to run into on consumer hardware, but with JS being used on the server I wonder if/when JS engines will need to deal with that.

parent jsheard 3 years ago

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