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by tjgq 4050 days ago
It can be even worse than that. A significant number of routers forward IPv4 packets in hardware but fall back to a software implementation for IPv6. So it might happen that the real bottleneck is not memory but throughput.

As for sticking with IPv4 for increased capacity, it depends. Private networks might get away with it for their internal traffic, but no major ISP nowadays will deliberately choose not to route IPv6 for their customers.