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> >4GB is only really meaningful for web browsers, compilers & interpreters, games and creative apps such as anything doing 3D, audio or large data processing.
Yes, but...
> web browsers
...includes Electron, Cordova/PhoneGap, WebView-based UIs, et cetera.
So yes, so long as software-houses uncritically jump on Electron as their platform-of-choice then all those apps will also ultimately be "web browsers" in disguise
...even a simple utility to flash an SD card[1] is a 150MB behemoth... I'm dying inside at this point.
[1]: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.19.21
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> Sadly, and as far as I can tell, x32 is pretty much abandonware today. Gentoo claims to support it but there are no official builds of any distribution I can find that are built in x32 mode.
It is supported, but the list of broken packages for that arch is rather long... [1]
You don't need an official build, as Gentoo builds itself and also cross-builds itself for any target and any ABI. In this case, you don't even need a cross-build.
Just install Gentoo x86_64 multilib, enable x32 support in kernel, enable abi_x86_x32 USE flag* for the packages you want to test and run emerge to build them. They won't even interfere with the rest of the running system. See [2].
[1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/profiles/arch/a...
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Multilib/Concepts
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IDK, I mostly use KDE apps and none of those are electron. The only web-browser thing I have open right now is firefox, everything else is pretty lean Qt apps: strawberry (RES 77 megabytes), dolphin (RES 61 megabytes), konsole (RES between 30 and 60-megabytes depending on my instance) the app I'm developing https://ossia.io (lean enough to run on a raspberry pi zero 2).
Meanwhile, I have a dozen firefox processes each above 500M RES and a few above 1G...
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