Two Questions

[Tove]

On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 20:23:55 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 21:12:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> And you get more memory out of
>> the deal even if you have as little as 4GB in the box. I wish 
>> that everything
>> would move to 64-bit so that we wouldn't have to even worry 
>> about 32-bit
>> anymore.
>
> What's the advantage of having 64-bit OS on 4gb RAM?
>

x32 is the "obvious" solution, best of both worlds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
... I really wonder why it has not yet gone mainstream.