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.
