I think I broke the quoting, heh.
This is not a case of one better than another. Rpi has been putting out 32-bit OSes with lots of attention and support for, what, 8 years? And the 64-bit OS (which RPi doesn't recommend using) has been out for all of 3 months. The pretty-rare-on-ARM-SBC 4+GB per process usage clearly isn't in the picture, and the likelihood of rewriting subroutines to optimize for 64-bit chips in this timeframe seems pretty low.
Look into other chips as they move to a double bit size. The results are mixed, depending on the architecture improvements and on how well code is optimised for larger word size/registers.
I will have to see if I can compare 32 bit and 64 bit OSes on one of my PINE devices, but since PINE has been 64-bit mostly from the start, I wouldn't be surprised if the 32 bit OSes were slower due to less optimization.
Edited to note that 64 bit OSes have existed for RPi devices for longer than this, but there seems to be a lot more attention paid now that there is an 8GB RPi4 out - I guess the 64 bit OS might be a "Standard" build now. I think what I said still holds, but not quite as much. that much time primarily dedicated to 32 bit OSes surely has led to some extra optimization.
This is not a case of one better than another. Rpi has been putting out 32-bit OSes with lots of attention and support for, what, 8 years? And the 64-bit OS (which RPi doesn't recommend using) has been out for all of 3 months. The pretty-rare-on-ARM-SBC 4+GB per process usage clearly isn't in the picture, and the likelihood of rewriting subroutines to optimize for 64-bit chips in this timeframe seems pretty low.
Look into other chips as they move to a double bit size. The results are mixed, depending on the architecture improvements and on how well code is optimised for larger word size/registers.
I will have to see if I can compare 32 bit and 64 bit OSes on one of my PINE devices, but since PINE has been 64-bit mostly from the start, I wouldn't be surprised if the 32 bit OSes were slower due to less optimization.
Edited to note that 64 bit OSes have existed for RPi devices for longer than this, but there seems to be a lot more attention paid now that there is an 8GB RPi4 out - I guess the 64 bit OS might be a "Standard" build now. I think what I said still holds, but not quite as much. that much time primarily dedicated to 32 bit OSes surely has led to some extra optimization.
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it doesn't get sad
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it doesn't get happy
it doesn't get sad
it just runs programs