18 Nov
2015
18 Nov
'15
9:35 p.m.
Hello,
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:36:57AM +0000, Philip Storry wrote:
There's a very old wiki page which states:
" 32 or 64-bit?
At the time of writing, all BitFolk VPSes are 32-bit. Almost all
VPSes have a small amount of memory, thus do not run up against the
address space limits inherent in 32-bit platforms. Also, a 64-bit
platform has larger pointers and integers so would actually use more
memory for the same tasks.
I think it's probably time to flip to 64-bit being the default, with
32-bit being optional. Something I'll tackle after the hardware is
all upgraded.
I don't know what the trade-off is like with larger binaries vs.
more registers but probably it's quite small otherwise I expect
someone would have produced benchmarks. :)
Cheers,
Andy
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