Geoff Streeter <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Funny, my view is the exact opposite. I first used 64 bit on a Dec Alpha > in about 1993. I have been wondering ever since why anybody would want > to cling to 32 bit. Abstractly, I agree. But there are so many gotchas and so little payoff for desktop users in the switch to 64 bits that it seems premature, at least for people who don't want to help ferret out the remaining problems. > I had better declare my bias; I implement an APL interpreter. A >significant number of my users are bouncing off address space >restrictions and are being held back because their users are constrained >to use 32 bit windows as a platform. Sure, your users have a real reason to go 64 bits. The average desktop user doesn't. - Dan
