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by zokier 654 days ago
x86-64 is 57 bits these days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5-level_paging
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Thanks for the correction! TIL.
Tbf, it's not commonly run because it increases TLB miss latency for rarely any benefit (why are you mmap-ing so much? How can you afford to keep that much data around...).