On 2008-12-26 06:18:33 +0100, "Nick Sabalausky" <a...@a.a> said:
2. I have absolutely zero interest in 64-bit. To the people annoyed at the limitations of the 32-bit address space: What in the world are you working on? Non-linear video editors and 3D modeling packages?
Natural language processing. E.g. most parsers and generators with a wide-coverage grammar will need a lot of memory, since ambiguity of sentences increases dramatically with sentence length.
Or to give a specific example: we have recently extended some techniques for error mining in parsing results. In natural language parsing, a possible parsing failure is the inability to find a parse that spans a whole sentence (as opposed to e.g. an incorrect parse). Error mining tries to find the most probable causes (words or phrases) for the such parsing failures. If iterative error mining methods are applied to parsing results of large corpera (or domain-specific corpera where a relatively large number of sentences fail to parse), it's easy to break the 4GB barrier.
-- Daniel
