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
adb@b0rk We've always had CPUs and languages that could handle multiple sizes, so a 32-bit chip isn't prevented from doing 64-bit or 16-bit or 8-bit work as needed. We need programmers to be thoughtful about the size required for each data type. Address-bus width is the other consideration, with 32-bit addresses being best before you hit 4 GB.