Thursday, June 25, 2009

A good article on the changes from the 32 bit address space to 64 bits.

Related to the previous article on hacking visual studio to get rid of the 2Gb limit on user process virtual memory there is a good article from Mark Russinovich that explains what this setting (in the bootloader) does and how the memory looks like when you have a processor and OS that supports a 64bit address space:

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx

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