I wrote something about code density and how 64-bit pointers would bloat code, but then was surprised to see that x86-64 code tends to be smaller than its i386 counterpart. So I had to dig for details and find answers. Here, the story. https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/x86-64-programming-models
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