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I'm just getting horrible segmenting and far-pointer vibes of the whole thing, been coding a classic Gameboy game for fun so fiddling with memory mappings is part of the "fun" but for anything non-constrained I'd hate that.

We buried far pointers with DOS and Win16 for a good reason..



I'd take segment-pointers over copying megabytes of memory around anyday though ;)

It's not much different than dealing with all the alignment rules that are needed when arranging data for the GPU.


"Far" memory is already a central concept in modern GPU APIs. Not all GPUs naturally share memory with the CPU they're running against and handles for resources are a requirement.




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