On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 21:21:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 06:33:02 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
I can live without hot water in my house, would I?
So sad but true... my water heater went down today :(
Ouch, that analogy got out of hand quick)
Basement flooded and it is blinking out a bad vapor sensor
error code.
Sorry to hear that.
Client applications probably do not care much. Servers and
cluster software can use more RAM and take advantage of huge
address space in many interesting ways.
Yeah, I know. And if you're writing that kind of software,
installing Visual Studio isn't a big deal.
But my point is that the kind of typical hobby stuff and a huge
(HUGE) subset of other work too functions perfectly well with
32 bit, yes, even with optlink. You can do web applications,
desktop applications, games, all kinds of things with the
out-of-the-box dmd install and nobody will be the wiser of 32
vs 64 bit unless someone makes a specific stink over it.
Sure. Even Chrome snd its ilk were 32-bit for super long time. I
think 64-bit consumed even more ram and that postponed the switch
:)
