Is DMD 2.052 32-bit?

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 10 09:29:01 PST 2011


== Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisProg at gmx.com)'s article
> Linux distros _definitely_ prefer to have native binaries, and those that try and
> be 64-bit pure _can't_ use 32-bit binaries unless those binaries are completely
> statically linked - though multilib is still the most common scenario for 64-bit
> versions of most Linux distros.

Out of curiosity, what's the advantage of this purity, other than a fairly
inconsequential amount of disk space and bandwidth savings?  32-bit can even be
_more_ efficient for certain things because pointers are only 4 bytes instead of 8.


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