Now that both PC and Mac have 64-bit CPU capable of addressing several
gigabytes of RAM, will bioconductor be able to take advantage of this
new feature without a major revision? I remember having a trouble
trying to process 100+ chips at once due to limitation in addressable
memory, so I'm curious.
I have been using Bioconductor on the new AMD x86-64 since at least
June. Since I always compile from source, I was able to take advantage
of the larger memory address space once I figured out the proper
compiler options and no code changes to R or Bioconductor.