Note from a donor

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 21:21:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 06:33:02 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
> wrote:
>> I can live without hot water in my house, would I?
>
> So sad but true... my water heater went down today :(

Ouch, that analogy got out of hand quick)

> Basement flooded and it is blinking out a bad vapor sensor 
> error code.

Sorry to hear that.

>
>> Client applications probably do not care much. Servers and 
>> cluster software can use more RAM and take advantage of huge 
>> address space in many interesting ways.
>
> Yeah, I know. And if you're writing that kind of software, 
> installing Visual Studio isn't a big deal.
>
> But my point is that the kind of typical hobby stuff and a huge 
> (HUGE) subset of other work too functions perfectly well with 
> 32 bit, yes, even with optlink. You can do web applications, 
> desktop applications, games, all kinds of things with the 
> out-of-the-box dmd install and nobody will be the wiser of 32 
> vs 64 bit unless someone makes a specific stink over it.

Sure. Even Chrome snd its ilk were 32-bit for super long time. I 
think 64-bit consumed even more ram and that postponed the switch 
:)