7 Jan
2026
7 Jan
'26
10:50 a.m.
From: Andre via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
Assuming you are using rpi zero w 2, why use 32bit arm binaries (or maybe OS as well)... any specific use case? i'm running 64bit Alpine:
My recollection is that 64-bit ARM machine code is significantly less dense that 32-bit ARM code. If you are short of memory, this may matter. On RPi 3, if I remember correctly, 64-bit performance was worse than 32-bit performance. If your processes are less that 3GiB, 64-bit pointers are only a waste.