That is what they keep saying... It just pisses me off that I have this monster desktop machine with all of this power available, and Visual Studio is choking

That is what they keep saying... It just pisses me off that I have this monster desktop machine with all of this power available, and Visual Studio is choking and thrashing and locking up all the time, using a tiny fraction of what is available, because this 32-bit throttle is in the way. And anybody reading the tea-leaves over the past decade could see that 32-bit Windows was on the way out, and memory capacity, if it hasn't grown at the curve it did the decade before that, is certainly not a precious commodity to the point that you have to fuss about 32 vs 64 bit pointers taking more space.