The issue with D...

Ecstatic Coder ecstatic.coder at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 15:17:14 UTC 2019


>> I agree, but IMO this is one more reason to use 64 bit as the 
>> new Windows default.
>>
>> There will always be old PCs running on 32 bit OS, but many 
>> statistics corroborate the fact that most Windows users have 
>> now switched to the 64 bit version.
>>
>> That's especially true for PC gamers, if you simply look at 
>> the Steam statistics :
>>
>> https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
>> (click on OS Version)
>
> As far as I understand, it is technically possible to provide a 
> 64 bit dmd which defaults to x86_64 for windows. The release 
> pipeline needs to adapted. To get this right, this will take 
> several days of work (assumption).
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

That would clearly be the best solution, but just having the -m64 
option activated by default on the 32-bit compiler would already 
be a big step into that direction...



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