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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
There was an article about this somewhere, but.. 128-bit is probably the end of the line.
You're probably right, by ~8,800 A.D. or so the earth will probably be a pile of atomized ash, by way of a jihad against the thinking machines. So by the time anything requiring more limits then a true 128-bit architecture can provide comes on line, we'll be to darn busy to care ;-)
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
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