“The user-mode virtual address space in 64-bit Windows is a mere 8 terabytes… It’s the final solution, at least for the lifetime of everyone reading this blog post today.”
You think? In the early 90’s, I had a computer with 2MB of RAM. Today (17 years later), it is feasible to have 4GB. That’s 2,000 times more memory. If the same trend continues, we could have 8TB by 2024. Certainly within most of our lifetimes.