# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-12-05 00:00:19
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53693.msg640614#msg640614

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 @p{brk}
Why the change:  because it is twice as fast to compile just 32-bit, a 32-bit-only executable is smaller and faster to download, and there is no advantage to running 64-bit (bitcoin doesn't need more than 4 gigabytes of memory, there are no performance-critical routines that would be faster running 64-bit, etc). @p{par}

If there's a good reason to compile 64-bit, or if we ever drop support for 32-bit Macs then a 64-bit version would make sense.