Sean Kelly wrote:
> Daniel Ribeiro Maciel wrote:
>> Who still use a 32-bit computer these days anyways.
> 
> Donald Knuth does.  He's complained about not being able to leverage the additional registers in a 64-bit CPU without having to use 64-bit pointers though.  See:
> 
> http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html
> 
> "A Flame About 64-bit Pointers"

What a coincidence. Only yesterday I read that following a link from reddit about Knuth giving up sending checks as rewards for bug discovery. (It turns out that many people put photocopies of his checks on the Web as bragging rights, and a bug in the banking system allows anyone who sees an ABA + check number to easily withdraw money from that account.)

Andrei

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Daniel Ribeiro Maciel wrote:
>>> Who still use a 32-bit computer these days anyways.
>>
>> Donald Knuth does.  He's complained about not being able to leverage the additional registers in a 64-bit CPU without having to use 64-bit pointers though.  See:
>>
>> http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html
>>
>> "A Flame About 64-bit Pointers"
> 
> What a coincidence. Only yesterday I read that following a link from reddit about Knuth giving up sending checks as rewards for bug discovery. (It turns out that many people put photocopies of his checks on the Web as bragging rights, and a bug in the banking system allows anyone who sees an ABA + check number to easily withdraw money from that account.)

I read it for the same reason :-)  Funny that it would be relevant today.


Sean