Timeline for Is there a good reason to run 32-bit software instead of 64-bit on 64-bit machines?
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 5:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackProgrammer/status/723025309520543744 | ||
| S Apr 18, 2016 at 9:15 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Apr 18, 2016 at 9:15 | comment | added | yannis | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 0:40 | comment | added | rhughes | Kind of related: An interesting discussion on why Visual Studio is not 64-bit: blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2009/06/10/… | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 12:06 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @gnasher729: my comment should only point out that the OP has asked his question in an IMHO very biased tone like "64 bits are clearly better than 32, so why should we still use this 32 bit crap?" - which is nonsense. There is no general "one is better than the other" in here. Luckily, he got good answers which pointed that out. | |
| S Apr 16, 2016 at 12:01 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Copy edited. |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 11:59 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @rhughes: your links tells quite the opposite than your comment. Typo? | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 11:23 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 16, 2016 at 11:16 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @underscore_d: Everyone who will ever consider paying for software that you write has a 64 bit computer :-) | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 11:13 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @DocBrown: On MacOS X, if your computer actually runs 32 and 64 bit apps at the same time, then 32 and 64 bit libraries need to be pulled on, so there's a huge advantage running only 32 bit or only 64 bit software. Since nowadays most software is 64 bit, one 32 bit app comes at significant cost. 10 years ago, running one 64 bit app amongst all 32 bit apps was a significant cost. | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 11:08 | comment | added | gnasher729 | Apple doesn't hasn't accepted any 32-bit only software for iOS for the last two years, so users of 64 bit iPhones have no choice, and developers of new software have no choice. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 21:48 | comment | added | Drathier | @underscore_d Sorry, I haven't seen a computer without 64bit hardware since 2010 except small raspberry pi's and similar. Of course there are still 32bit machines, I just couldn't think of any example of 32bit desktop hardware. No offense intended. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 21:13 | comment | added | underscore_d | @FilipHaglund lmao, your response to "not everyone has a 32-bit machine" was to ask for a citation, are you kidding me? "64-bit hardware has been available for years now" does not translate to "everyone has 64-bit hardware and OS". that's a really blinkered and almost elitist assumption | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 16:12 | comment | added | neilsimp1 | Some insight on this topic: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PennyPinchingInTheCloudYourWebAppDoesntNeed64bit.aspx | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 15:54 | comment | added | Panzercrisis | This really raises the question: Why are 32-bit machines still in common use and commonly manufactured? | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 12:27 | comment | added | Pharap | I can't vouch for elsewhere but well-established businesses in Britain tend to be very behind on technology. In the town where I live the busses have a screen to tell people what the next stop is, and sometimes it bluescreens and restarts, revealing it's Windows XP. One of my parents has worked in offices all their life and at their current place of employment the computers all run XP using a mixture of outdated software and new stuff crudely bolted on top. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that 32-bit machines are awkwardly common in business. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 12:27 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 11:35 | answer | added | Jörg W Mittag | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 11:21 | vote | accept | Drathier | ||
| Apr 15, 2016 at 11:09 | answer | added | Ext3h | timeline score: 84 | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 10:29 | answer | added | Michael Borgwardt | timeline score: 6 | |
| S Apr 15, 2016 at 10:22 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 15, 2016 at 10:19 | history | edited | gnat | edited tags | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 10:17 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Apr 15, 2016 at 10:13 | history | edited | Drathier | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Clarified question |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 10:05 | comment | added | Drathier | Not a duplicate @gnat. That question is about fitting a timestamp, and a developer id in the error code returned when a program exits. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 10:04 | comment | added | Drathier | More registers, more memory, better performance in general? | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 10:03 | comment | added | Doc Brown | Rhetorical question: is there a reason to supply a 64 bit version of any software since most modern 64bit operating systems allow to run 32bit and 64bit applications as well? | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 10:02 | comment | added | Drathier | I personally see any machine with only than 4gigs of ram as basically unusable for daily work, and both os x and windows 10 are 64bit by default (you have to ask for a 32bit version if you really want it), and hardware has been 64bit for like 15 years now. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | Murphy | Ask your customers. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | Bálint | Most windows tablets run a 32 but operating system. I link some examples later. Mine what goes in to this category too. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 9:57 | comment | added | Drathier | Do you have any examples? | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 9:54 | comment | added | Bálint | Not every modern machine runs 64 bit OS | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 9:51 | history | asked | Drathier | CC BY-SA 3.0 |