64 bit DMD binary on the Mac
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jun 28 12:39:42 PDT 2011
On 6/28/2011 12:13 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Since most of the applications and most the libraries (basically all that ships
> with Mac OS X) are universal there's usually no problem of running/building both
> 32 and 64bit software.
I'll explain the motivation for 64 bit only DMD binaries:
1. It cuts the testing time in half. This is a significant deal for me, as
adding another hour to the test cycle slows things down a lot.
2. It speeds downloading the dmd package.
The only reason to have a 32 bit binary is if there are x86 Macs 10.5 or later
that are incapable of running 64 bit code.
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