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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin-Qt, bitcoind version 0.5.3 released
by
Luke-Jr
on 15/03/2012, 21:23:12 UTC
why?  isn't bitcoin something that could really benefit from the jump to 64-bit?
In short, no. The only benefit to 64-bit userspace is large virtual machines (over 2-4 GB RAM) and applications where a small boost in performance matters more than memory usage (64-bit uses ~twice as much memory). Also, no Bitcoin developers actually use Windows, and I don't think Ubuntu supports targeting Win64.