Re: upper limit on retain count

FROM : Bob Ippolito
DATE : Sat Apr 23 00:40:05 2005

On Apr 22, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:

>> Well, I fear in that case you *cannot* use ObjC objects for them. 1e9
>> plus objects means (considerably more than) 7 GB of address space.
>> Although that is not in principle problem with a G5, currently it *is*
>> an unsolvable problem with the ObjC runtime

>
> Yes, sounds like an application that would need to use Tiger, with
> Cocoa for
> the user interface only, and a 64-bit backend process, and C++ &
> STL/Loki/Boost.


Sounds more like an application that should just make intelligent use
of mmap and/or subprocesses (which also makes scaling horizontally to
multiple machines possible).. unless, of course, the software
requirements are 16gb of ram and a coffee break before loading or
saving a file :)

-bob