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Thanks for your answer!

@druid wrote:

Just to add, 32-bit applications can never access more than 2gb of RAM.

It’s 3 gigs, actually.

I found something that answers pretty much everything, coming from a software engineer:

@Zynewave wrote:

Podium x86 can access max 3GB, so perhaps Podium x64 will be able to utilize some of your remaining 1 GB. I would use Podium x64 only if I have x64 plugins that I would like to use, or if I have memory hungry plugins and more than 4GB RAM. Podium x64 should offer better performance than Podium x86, but that performance advantage will probably be lost if you use a lot of 32-bit plugins wrapped with for example jBridge.

@druid wrote:

As moving to 64-bit in most cases makes very little difference (in my experience it hasn’t been an advantage or a disadvantage, it’s the same), I wouldn’t expect to see things operate better or worse, and wouldn’t worry about the transition a whole lot. It looks like you’ve already researched things that may not work and have an answer for one thing, so the chances are you won’t notice the difference (possibly excepting that one thing you found).

That’s exactly how I see it 😀

Cheers!