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Comment by layer8

1 month ago

64-bit pointers tend to be a bit wasteful as well.

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josefx  1 month ago

Especially on a system from the 80s, did they plan to address every bit of memory available on the planet?

yjftsjthsd-h  1 month ago

I am forever sad that x32 didn't take off. Lower memory use, great performance. Ah well.

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