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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by valuearb on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:45PM (#16822668)
The increase in pointer size is trivial in todays memory limits. An application with a million pointers will only use 4 megabytes more memory.
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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by qaq on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:55PM (#16822762)
CPU cache will not magically double in size to accommodate, so performance will suffer
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