64-bit

[BCS]

Hello Nick,

> "Just Visiting" <nospam at aol.com> wrote in message
> news:hbcbvs$1ees$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> Last things I remember:
>> 
>> - DmD is strictly 32-bit
>> - Someone ported a chronically outdated D-compiler variant to Linux
>> x86_64
>> The ideas behind DmD looked promising to me. But most of my programs
>> showed at least a 2-fold performance increase once they were
>> re-written for 64-bit.
>> 
> Only on 64-bit systems. Which are already ridiculously fast anyway. So
> what if they get some more performance? They already have gobs of
> performance to spare. On a 32-bit system it changes the programs
> performance down to "It don't f** work at all", which is the mark of
> an incredibly arrogant developer who likes to shoot themself in the
> foot by arbitrarily shrinking their own potential user base.

best option, build the language (and the apps) so that they compile on either 
and ship both.