Is time comes to not worry about memory [closed]

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About a year ago we are developed for internal use inprocess MOLAP engine that perform aggregation of a large amount of data.

We using it only as a part of our platform because we was sure that such a system without custom memory alocation, paging etc is not viable solution, but some time ago Microsoft published beta version of PowerPivot - tool that perform multidimensional analysis of flat object collections and visualization via Excel pivot tables\charts with the same 'issues' on x86 as our app.

And the question is

Should we ignore memory and simply deploy x64 version without any memory pain. and x86 versions with comments in user docs?

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Do you mean, "is it acceptable to release a desktop app that can only work properly on x64 workstations"?

I guess it depends on who your customers are. Personally, I think 32 bit platforms are going to be around for quite a while, esp. in corporate environments that are interested in desktop OLAP.

If you mean: is it acceptable for a server application to be 64bit exclusive, I guess my answer would be "yes" a lot faster.