Its a tradeoff cause now your pointers are double in size and that change is very far reaching. Physical memory consumption goes up pretty much universally. Wider data path is a great point, certain optimisations can be a lot faster now.
Its a tradeoff cause now your pointers are double in size and that change is very far reaching. Physical memory consumption goes up pretty much universally. Wider data path is a great point, certain optimisations can be a lot faster now.