D is crap

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On Wednesday, 6 July 2016 at 01:30:46 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> and i'm curious why everyone is so amazed by 64-bit systems. 
> none of my software is using more than 2GB of RAM. why should i 
> pay for something i don't need? like, all pointers are 
> magically twice bigger. hello, cache lines, i have a present 
> for you!

The advantage of compiling for AMD64 is that the compiler can 
assume a lot of extensions like the SSE bunch. If you want to 
distribute a binary for x86 you only have the 386 instructions. 
Ok, 686 is probably common enough today. For more special 
instructions, you could guard them and provide a fallback.

One example: To convert a floating point value to integer on 386, 
you need to store it to memory and load it again. Makes sense, if 
you floating point stuff is handled by a co-processor, but today 
this is completely integrated. SSE added an extra instruction to 
avoid the memory detour.

GCC has a switch (-mx32) to store pointers as 32bit on a 64bit 
system. That is probably very close to what you want.