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I don't know where you get that "it makes no difference" opinion. Back then when the VPSes you could rent had 256MB of RAM or some times even 128MB, it was com

I don't know where you get that "it makes no difference" opinion. Back then when the VPSes you could rent had 256MB of RAM or some times even 128MB, it was common knowledge that using a 32 bits distro would have a huge impact on your memory usage. Maybe you are reading those opinions wrong, and what they are really saying is "it's not pointers filling 4GB of RAM, the pointer size makes no difference on modern machines"? Because I can agree with that one.

tzot 2y ago
> I don't know where you get that "it makes no difference" opinion. It was a far hotter topic back when. After so many years, the only article I could locate (but unfortunately not one I did comment on) that I remember is this one: https://flameeyes.blog/2012/06/19/is-x32-for-me-short-answer-no/ https://flameeyes.blog/2012/06/19/is-x32-for-me-short-answer... There are other commenters though that mention the cache pressure and performance difference.