Re: Importing from wordlists.

From	Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Importing from wordlists.
Date	2015-04-05 00:36 +0200
Organization	albasani.net
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On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:02:48 -0700
Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
> >> You can make use of more address space.
> > I realize that's true in theory, but so far neither we nor our
> > customers have pushed the boundaries of 32-bit address space, and we
> > have had no demand for a 64-bit system to date.
> 
> I remember getting in a discussion with Anton here on clf about
> computing the billionth Hamming number, and he wrote some Forth code
> that did it with a clever algorithm that involved allocating a billion
> 64-bit cells (8GB).  One could say that's not a real-world problem,
> but it's still a concrete example of a Forth program that someone
> considered interesting enough to write, that wouldn't have fit in a
> 32 bit system.
> 
> As another issue, 64 bits give you much more safety from integer
> overflow.  Maybe your program was written in the 1990's and did
> something with dialup modems.  It might have been reasonable to use a
> 32-bit cell to hold the number of bytes transferred in a session.  Run
> the same program now with broadband internet and you can overflow 32
> bits in an hour or less.  Programs deal with bigger numbers than they
> used to.

Heh my router has 32 bit CPU and traffic statistics uses 32 bit ints,
and therefore is pretty useless ;)

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Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-03-29 12:43 +0000
  Importing from wordlists. Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 06:15 -0700
    Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-03-29 15:11 +0000
    Re: Importing from wordlists. hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-03-29 09:14 -0700
      Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-03-29 19:52 +0000
        Re: Importing from wordlists. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-03-30 12:39 +0000
          Re: Importing from wordlists. Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 09:09 -0700
            Re: Importing from wordlists. stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-03-30 16:42 +0000
            Re: Importing from wordlists. hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-03-30 17:55 -0700
              Re: Importing from wordlists. Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 05:41 -0700
          Re: Importing from wordlists. "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-03-31 13:26 +1000
            Re: Importing from wordlists. hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-03-30 19:54 -0700
              Re: Importing from wordlists. Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-03-31 02:23 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-03-31 12:02 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-03-31 07:41 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-03-31 16:36 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-03-31 16:52 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-03-31 18:33 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. JennyB <jennybrien@googlemail.com> - 2015-03-31 15:25 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-01 00:59 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. JennyB <jennybrien@googlemail.com> - 2015-04-01 08:05 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-01 15:25 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-01 15:58 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-01 15:57 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-03-31 23:58 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-01 02:00 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-03-31 18:48 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-04-01 08:03 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-01 16:38 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-01 15:54 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-01 17:41 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-01 18:24 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-02 05:27 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-04-02 12:38 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-02 15:45 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-02 17:25 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-03 02:00 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-04-03 20:49 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-03 11:08 -1000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-03 14:14 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-04-04 02:47 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-03 21:37 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-03 14:05 -1000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-04 05:14 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-04 14:07 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-04 14:02 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-04-05 00:36 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2015-04-04 04:35 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-04 13:30 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-04 16:38 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2015-04-04 16:48 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-03 23:49 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-03 14:09 -1000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-04 20:30 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-04 13:29 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 23:57 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-03 21:35 -1000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-04-04 10:00 -0700
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-04-04 19:08 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-04-02 22:45 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-03 02:08 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-04-02 20:59 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-03 02:03 +0200
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-04-03 20:52 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-04-09 12:39 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-01 15:03 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-01 01:10 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-04-01 07:32 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-01 07:52 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-01 10:39 +0000
                SYNONYM (wase: Importing from wordlists.) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-01 11:29 +0000
                Re: SYNONYM (wase: Importing from wordlists.) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-01 15:08 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-01 15:49 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-01 17:12 +0000
                Re: Importing from wordlists. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-01 18:45 +0100
                Re: Importing from wordlists. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-04-01 20:43 +0100
  Re: Importing from wordlists. mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2015-04-04 09:53 +0200
    Re: Importing from wordlists. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-04 14:20 +0000
      Re: Importing from wordlists. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-04 17:10 +0000
        Re: Importing from wordlists. mhx@iae.nl - 2015-04-04 11:25 -0700

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