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Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

Posted Jun 26, 2012 12:59 UTC (Tue) by tao (subscriber, #17563)
In reply to: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths by dlang
Parent article: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

I think you must've misunderstood or misread my comment. You explicitly asked for advantages of x32 over x64. The advantages I mentioned (cache footprint, etc) were about that, nothing else.

Nowhere did I question the merits of x64 (or x32, for that matter) over x86.

As far as address space goes though, you can use a 64-bit kernel even with x86.


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