DMD 64bit Status?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 14:29:04 Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote:
> Can anyone tell me the status of the DMD 64bit compiler? I'm going to be
> working on a project in the next month that will involve 18,000 x 18,000
> double matrices. 32bit will only allow me to work with 1 at a time and I
> need to be able to handle minimum of 2 at a time. I have thought of using
> LDC, but that would require rewriting 10,000 lines of code to work with
> Tango instead of Phobos.
> 
> Thank you,
> JC

For Windows, it's likely to be a while since dmc's linker is apparently only 32-
bit at this point. For Linux, Walter is working on it right now. He's far enough 
along that he has hello world working. It was not far enough along for it to be 
included in the most recent release. I don't know how long he expects it to take 
or whether it will be out in the next release or not. So, if you have to start a 
project in the next month and you need 64-bit right away, then you're probably 
going to be out of luck. However, we should have 64-bit dmd for Linux fairly 
soon. Whether that's a month from now or 3 months from now or when, I don't 
know. But it is the main thing that Walter is working on right now, so it's 
definitely coming.

- Jonathan M Davis