Re: 64bit support
- Posted by Critic Mar 03, 2009
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My personal feelings are that 64-bit desktop systems aren't ready for prime time.
Well, some Linux 64bit distributions manage to avoid 32bit binaries altogether. I'd argue that 64-bit desktop systems are ready for prime time since several years. (I use one.) I'd rather have a 64bit Euphoria executable than DOS support. (Hey, it's 2009, who cares for DOS support? 
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There is likely to be considerable work involved in porting Euphoria to 64-bits. The assumption of 32-bits is very ingrained into the code, and while it's not an impossible task to make the jump to 64-bits, it's far from trivial. And for the record, the assumptions about 32-bits are part of why euphoria is so fast.
Hm, seems to be a bad language design (and implementation)...
