> "it's an x64 world and it creates a better impression"

*the 2000's called and they want their outdated assumptions back*

regards,
Preet, in Auckland NZ



On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 11:48, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
wrote:

> Folks, one of my colleagues insists on compiling everything as platform
> x64 mainly because he thinks "it's an x64 world and it creates a better
> impression". For a year I've tried to convince him that for managed code
> that it's a complete waste of time. I've told him that ildasm.exe shows
> that for x64 and AnyCPU the generated IL and the manifests are identical, I
> even told him that dumpbin.exe shows the only non trivial difference in the
> PE headers is a couple of flags that show x86/x64 and PE32/PE32+, but they
> don't affect the loading and running of a PE containing IL and metadata.
>
> Does anyone have paradigm-shattering evidence I can give my colleague to
> break his habit? (I'm hoping I'm right of course!!)
>
> *Greg*
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