64-bit
Jeremie Pelletier
jeremiep at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 07:14:50 PDT 2009
Just Visiting wrote:
> Last things I remember:
>
> - DmD is strictly 32-bit
> - Someone ported a chronically outdated D-compiler variant to Linux x86_64
>
> The ideas behind DmD looked promising to me. But most of my programs showed at least a 2-fold performance increase once they were re-written for 64-bit. Therefore 32-bit compilers are just wasting my time, and this is why I've lost track of DmD.
>
> After a certain waiting period I'd now like to know from the well informed amongst you if there are any indications that DmD will eventually evolve to support current CPU architectures?
>
> Thanks.
>
I believe 64bit support is on Walter's todo list after the spec for D2
is finished.
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