Re: pros and cons of AMD64 and i386 Linux on a home system

Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:

Some people have compiled a 32bit address system with 64bit operations and all AMD64 registers. For everything that doesn't require more than 3G of address space per process it should beat i386 or standard AMD64 builds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI Those people are strange and should be avoided.