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by chrisbennet 3046 days ago
At least with Visual Studio, it’s 32bit for performance reasons (32bit is faster).

https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/01/VS-64-bit

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Thanks for sharing this interesting reading.

It makes sense.

> [...] most of the time, staying with 32-bit and reducing the amount of memory being consumed will have a much larger impact for both the application and the operating systems as a whole.