What's the Difference Between 32-Bit and 64-Bit in the GiD program on Windows OS?

GiD Installation
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Hello, GiD Team.

I need to explain about installation about GiD Program for my customer.

Please tell me ‘Really Difference’ about x86 ver and x64 ver.

Thanks.

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Is it ok to install with x86 version if there is no difference in performance?

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A 32 bits program use 32 bits (4 Bytes) for memory addresses, then the maximum memory that can handle is 2^32=4.294.967.296=about 4GB, (2 or 3 GB in practice).
In practice,in Windows a x32 process that spend more than 2GB will crash.

A 64 bits program uses 8 Bytes for pointers, and can theoretically handle 2^64= much more than the physical available memory.
Then a process could spend the whole physical memory.

With 2GB of process is possible to generate a maximum of about 10 millions of tetrahedra

About performance in velocity is similar in both versions.

A Windows x64 platform could run both GiD versions, x32 and x46.
A Windows x32 platform could run only a GiD x32 version