64-bit

SirWobbyTheFirst · Post by **SirWobbyTheFirst** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:22 pm

I've just today installed the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate (RTM) and I started thinking whether there are any plans to port Revolution to a 64-bit platform.

I think this would benefit all the platforms as most linux distros have supported x64 for a while, Mac has gone full 64-bit with Snow Leopard and Windows 7 is going to be the last version of Windows with a 32-bit counterpart.

On the old website in the FAQ it said that Rev was built using C++ and many applications exist that are able to convert 32-bit apps to 64-bit without the source code needing to be modified.

Any ideas guys and girls.

Janschenkel · Post by **Janschenkel** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:02 am

At the moment all operating systems' APIs are available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so there is no compelling reason, to switch to 64-bit at all - only if you need to address more than 2GB of memory from your application.
The only applications that truly benefit from 64-bit have to deal with processing hige amounts of data, such as images, video and audio. Not exactly the type of application you'd build in Rev, if I may say so.

Jan Schenkel.