Is DMD 2.052 32-bit?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"lurker" <a at a.a> wrote in message news:ile2kg$2klo$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Jonathan M Davis Wrote:
>
>> Now, assuming that all of that is taken care, if you're using a 32-bit 
>> binary on
>> a 64-bit system, you're still going to be restricted on how much that 
>> program
>> can use. It doesn't use the native word size of the machine to do what it 
>> does,
>> and in many cases, running a 32-bit program on a 64-bit machine is slower 
>> than
>> running a 64-bit version of that program on that machine (though that's 
>> going to
>> vary from program to program, since there are  obviously quite a few 
>> factors
>> which affect efficiency).
>
> The efficiency claim is true. 64-bit architures have much more registers. 
> This can effectively double the code's performance in most cases. Loads 
> and stores can also use full 64 bits of bandwidth instead of 32. Thus 
> again twice as much speed. In general if you worry about larger binary 
> size, use UPX. Other than that, 64 bit code outperforms the 32 bit. We 
> want to keep the fastest compiler title, right?

OTOH, 32-bit code on 64-bit already vastly outperforms 32-bit code on a 
32-bit machine anyway.