the binaries for B4X products are currently 32-bit.
without meaning to spark any controversy - any known/ planned plans to move to 64-bit?
without meaning to spark any controversy - any known/ planned plans to move to 64-bit?
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32-bit to 64-bit B4X, quo vadis?
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It will happen at some point. As B4X IDE is a .Net application, it is a matter of a few clicks to switch.
The upside for it is that the memory limit (for the IDE itself) is higher, however it will not run on 32 bit computers.
There aren't many cases where the IDE reaches the memory limit.
The upside for it is that the memory limit (for the IDE itself) is higher, however it will not run on 32 bit computers.
There aren't many cases where the IDE reaches the memory limit.
There is no real need for general purpose CPUs that can handle 128 bit wide data natively. Memory interfaces more than 64 bits wide are useful to increase transfer speeds but having a 128 bit CPU will just use twice the memory of a 64 bit one for addresses and pointers for no real world benefit (at the current time).
that's because he earns more then I do
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I guess so; and, the bland side of that is that one then has to produce two versions (as one sees on download sites).
there is a code execution speed advantage that one gets which might be of advantage to developers in some fora here.
anyway....
you won't live to see 128-bit CPU
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Weeeell, boy would it have been useful. My buddy and I both had jobs where the modelling exercises could have done with that. BUT, a 64-bit with multi-core multi-threading proved just as useful from a number crunching viewpoint - but - NOT in any way intuitive to program. When you witness things going from days to hours to minutes to seconds in execution time its quite awesome. (then, of course, there was breaking into the graphic coprocessor back in the old days to speed computation up.)
So B4X going from minutes to seconds would be fun.
I earn about € 9,873.48... per month, but I'm stingy and don't spend it on a new laptop as long as it survives. ?that's because he earns more then I do
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you must be a parliamentarian in cape town ? they're also stingy