DMD and 64-bit

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I don't mean this as "anti-64bit" trolling, just a genuine question, but 
> what would be the point of a 64-bit build of DMD? (Note: I'm talking about 
> host, not target). Just to compile projects that have (on the order of) 
> gigabytes of source?

Some machines (in particular, FreeBSD) do not support mixed mode development.

(Yes, I know FreeBSD does in theory, but I could never get it to work.)