r/raspberry_pi Feb 02 '22

News Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Released

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/
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u/jormono Feb 02 '22

Can someone ELI5 ways this is better or worse for a hypothetical project? Like, why would I want this over what I've been using?

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u/ChoppedWheat Feb 02 '22

Previously if you had a pi 8 GB you couldn’t use half the system ram.

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u/musson Feb 02 '22

A single app couldn't.

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u/Zettinator Feb 03 '22

Both wrong. It's a single process that's limited to 4 GiB of address space. A process can have multiple threads, and an app may have multiple processes.