I can't edit, but it seems my reasons for thinking 32-bit can be faster aren't entirely daft - but the gains of 64-bit x64 include it having simply more registe

I can't edit, but it seems my reasons for thinking 32-bit can be faster aren't entirely daft - but the gains of 64-bit x64 include it having simply more registers, having smaller faster floating point precision, being able to request more memory at once, and the hits to pointer size overheads or processor cache holding less real data are rare and mostly from buggy or odd conditions, and that for a lot of normal programs there'll be no difference either way: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2378399/are-64-bit-programs-bigger-and-faster-than-32-bit-versions https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2378399/are-64-bit-progr... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/324015/supplying-64-bit-specific-versions-of-your-software https://stackoverflow.com/questions/324015/supplying-64-bit-... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2334148/is-there-any-real-point-compiling-a-windows-application-as-64-bit https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2334148/is-there-any-rea... interesting.