Julia Evans32 bits is small
permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/32-bit-small/
definitely going to take out the "it's not the 90s, use 64 bits” line out of this one. I was already unsure about it (because it's obviously not true, you should use whatever size is appropriate for your use case) and from the responses I don't think it's adding much
Cassandrich@b0rk Specifically, where you need 64 (or more) bits is for "count of things" type data where the nature of what's being counted doesn't preclude numbers that large. (In C, for things that live in memory, appropriate use of *_t types handles that for you.)