64-bit DMD for windows?

[steven kladitis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 15 December 2011 at 21:05:05 UTC, captaindet wrote:
> On 2011-12-15 04:47, torhu wrote:
>> On 14.12.2011 12:54, dmd.20.browseruk at xoxy.net wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a 64-bit version of DMD for windows?
>>>
>>> The download page offers only an x86 version. Or am I reading 
>>> too
>>> much into that?
>>>
>>> Cheers, buk
>>>
>>
>> There's not much you would need a 64-bit compiler for on 
>> Windows.
>> What are you going to use it for?
>
> now what is this for a strange comment? you need 64bit for 
> windows for the same reasons than for any other platform: 
> accessing loads of mem. yes, for some this is really important! 
> for me it is actually a dealbreaker - i'd love to use D for my 
> scientific programming, but my datasets often reach several 
> GB...
>
> my computer has 16GB and i intend to make use of them.
>
> det





It is NOT just for memory addressing , wchi is very simple under 
64 bit, but also 64 bit registers, 16 of them , not just 8 32 
bit.  I think there should be a 64 bit version.