We are developing a swing application written by Java which requires only about 128MB memory, and in the short future I don't see it will require much more memory like 4GB. Previously we provide always 3 different releases, one for 32-bit Windows, one for 32-bit Linux and another for 64-bit Linux, with an installer which has JRE included. The 64-bit version was not used by anyone until couple of weeks ago, and an OutOfMemoryException was reported because the application consumes about 40-50% more memory than the 32-bit version.
My question is, is it needed at all for us to provide the 64-bit version for 64-bit Linux if the application will never need to use more than 4GB memory? We had some quick test which revealed that 32-bit version works also on 64-bit Linux. But I'm not sure what could be the cons we would have, e.g. performance and/or compatibility issue?
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