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[-] embed_me@programming.dev 47 points 6 months ago

That's what makes us humans different from computers. We don't ask how high, we just do it. Now, if it were a C pointer it would jump anywhere from 0 to 2^32-1. That's why C is more suited for artificial intelligence than it might initially seem. Thanks for coming to my tedx talk

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago

Pointers are ackshully 48 bits on amd64 (which is most PCs and servers)

[-] ___qwertz___@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago

Well ackshully newer CPUs support 5-level-paging which uses 56 bits.

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I was mostly joking about a stray pointer of type uint32_t*

So the size of the pointer itself doesn't matter

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