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Upgrade your software to 64bit?

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    Jurgen Eidt
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    Did you ever thought about upgrading your code/application to 64bit? Jürgen Eidt http://cpicture.de/en [^]

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      Did you ever thought about upgrading your code/application to 64bit? Jürgen Eidt http://cpicture.de/en [^]

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      Chris Losinger
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      yes. but then i decided i had better things to do Software | Cleek

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        Did you ever thought about upgrading your code/application to 64bit? Jürgen Eidt http://cpicture.de/en [^]

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        Daniel Turini
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        Yes: everytime I need to cast a pointer to an int on an ill-designed API. But still not an issue, you know... Yes, even I am blogging now!

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          Did you ever thought about upgrading your code/application to 64bit? Jürgen Eidt http://cpicture.de/en [^]

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          Michael P Butler
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          64bit? I still think I'm programming 16bit :-D Michael CP Blog [^]

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            Did you ever thought about upgrading your code/application to 64bit? Jürgen Eidt http://cpicture.de/en [^]

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            peterchen
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            After reading "int remains 32 bit" i thought "whew. Why not?"


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              Did you ever thought about upgrading your code/application to 64bit? Jürgen Eidt http://cpicture.de/en [^]

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              scadaguy
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              Yes. As a hobby I work on a chess engine that would benefit nicely. All strong playing engines use 64bit values called bitboards to store the entire state of the board. The bitboard operations could be performed significantly faster on a 64bit machine.

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                After reading "int remains 32 bit" i thought "whew. Why not?"


                we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
                sighist Fold With Us! || Agile Programming | doxygen

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                Tom Archer
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                I remember when moving 16-bit apps to 32-bit apps that we were supposed to use int as it was the size of the "system word" and not tied to a specific size - whereas short and long are 16 and 32 bits, respectively, regardless of the system word size. Cheers, Tom Archer "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake * Inside C# -Second Edition * Visual C++.NET Bible * Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework

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                  After reading "int remains 32 bit" i thought "whew. Why not?"


                  we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
                  sighist Fold With Us! || Agile Programming | doxygen

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                  ;P Jürgen Eidt http://cpicture.de/en [^]

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                    I remember when moving 16-bit apps to 32-bit apps that we were supposed to use int as it was the size of the "system word" and not tied to a specific size - whereas short and long are 16 and 32 bits, respectively, regardless of the system word size. Cheers, Tom Archer "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake * Inside C# -Second Edition * Visual C++.NET Bible * Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework

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                    Tom Archer wrote: I remember when moving 16-bit apps to 32-bit apps...not tied to a specific size... And I remember explaining to many people that was the way God The Lords of C++ intended it, and that it was good. However, reality turns out much more complicated. It seems in a "real life" project you need to be proactive, simply sticking to a few golden rules doesn't bite it. (If it were that easy!)


                    we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
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