extreme mem usage under amd64 arch ?

[Oliver Fromme]

Astrodog <astrodog at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Please consider what AMD64 is, exactly, and what it means for
 > something to be 64-bit, as opposed to 32-bit. On a 32 bit processor,
 > all ints, and pointers take up 32 bits of memory. So, for every int,
 > and pointer, you use 4 Bytes. On a 64-bit processor, all ints, and
 > pointers take up 64-bits of memory.

No.  You're right with the pointers, but ints are always
4 bytes on both i386 and amd64.

Best regards
   Oliver

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