On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 19:21:08 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 18:16:09 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 16:18:24 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
Popped into my head today.
What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some
sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
And why?
OK, I'm clear about why Linux, but 64 bit I'm less clear
about. What's the attraction about a system that's a memory
hog, but not noticeably quicker, and where you have to do
cross compilation to make applications that are usable by the
vast proportion of world computer users?
64 bit is pretty ubiquitous in the
laptop/desktop/server/cluster world*. The extra registers is
occasionally important, as is the guarantee of SSE2.
Memory is dirt cheap these days, so that really isn't a
problem. The larger address space is important for security
reasons, as well as the obvious ease of use of more RAM in a
single process.
*and if you're straying out of that world then cross
compilation is standard anyway.
Just to clarify, of course I am talking from an x86-centric
viewpoint.
