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Re: Datsville
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It's true that your "just about" makes your statement true when taken literally. However, I would maintain that the implied meaning of what you said varies significantly from the literal truth of what you said. It's similar (although to a far lesser extent) to saying that just about the only thing a car is good for is protecting you from lightning strikes during a thunderstorm. In the case of LDView, the main gain you get when running the 64-bit version under Windows is the increased performance, not the larger memory space.

Very few LDraw models are large enough to cause 32-bit LDView to crash due to using more than 3.5GB of memory. (In Windows, a 32-bit program can be compiled to use roughly 3.5GB of memory. If the program is run on a 64-bit copy of Windows, it automatically gets this extra space above 2GB if the option was enabled during compilation. If the program is running on a 32-bit copy of Windows, this only happens if Windows itself is configured to allow it.)

On a side note (not meant to add further disagreement to your statement, but to hopefully add useful information), I have discovered after porting multiple programs to 64 bits that doing so often uncovers previously unknown intermittent bugs (things like uninitialized variables and off-by-one array overflows). Where the 32 bit version might almost never behave wrong due to a given bug, the 64 bit version might always crash, or very frequently crash. So porting a program to run both in 32 bits and 64 bits can in fact improve the overall quality of the program.
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Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2011-08-14, 19:52
Re: Datsville - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-14, 23:33
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2011-08-15, 17:32
Re: Datsville - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-15, 23:11
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2011-08-16, 0:06
Re: Datsville - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-16, 1:43
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2011-08-16, 17:41
Re: Datsville - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-17, 19:06
Re: Datsville - by Chris Dee - 2011-08-18, 10:20
Re: Datsville - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-18, 21:26
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2011-08-19, 19:02
Modulex (Was: Datsville) - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-19, 19:26
Re: Datsville - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-19, 19:03
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2011-08-19, 19:33
Re: Datsville - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-19, 21:50
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2011-08-20, 16:01
Re: Datsville - by Travis Cobbs - 2011-08-20, 17:39
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2011-08-20, 20:21
Re: Datsville - by Tore Eriksson - 2011-08-20, 20:32
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-16, 12:40
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-16, 21:29
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-17, 16:16
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-17, 16:26
Re: Datsville - by Orion Pobursky - 2013-10-17, 18:44
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-17, 18:52
Re: Datsville - by Travis Cobbs - 2013-10-17, 20:52
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-17, 20:59
Re: Datsville - by Travis Cobbs - 2013-10-17, 23:45
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-18, 0:21
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-17, 19:15
Re: Datsville - by Orion Pobursky - 2013-10-17, 20:04
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-17, 19:02
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-17, 20:03
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-17, 20:43
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-17, 21:01
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-17, 22:39
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-17, 23:07
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-17, 23:42
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-18, 0:17
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-18, 0:34
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-18, 1:57
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-19, 19:39
Re: Datsville - by Roland Melkert - 2013-10-19, 21:28
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-19, 22:51
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-10, 22:09
Re: Datsville - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-19, 20:01
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-26, 3:27
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-10-27, 15:12
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-27, 22:24
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-10-28, 16:45
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-10-28, 22:09
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-11-09, 23:44
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-10, 1:05
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-11-10, 6:30
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-11-10, 16:49
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-10, 20:43
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-11-10, 21:16
Re: Datsville rev224 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-10, 22:00
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-10, 22:14
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-11-11, 17:10
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-12, 2:53
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-11-11, 17:54
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-12, 20:17
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-11-12, 22:23
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Roland Melkert - 2013-11-11, 18:03
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-12, 3:05
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Philippe Hurbain - 2013-11-12, 9:33
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-12, 17:36
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Max Martin Richter - 2013-11-12, 17:55
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Heidemann - 2013-11-12, 17:55
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-12, 20:22
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-12, 19:50
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Roland Melkert - 2013-11-12, 20:10
Re: Datsville rev256 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-12, 20:20
Re: Datsville rev267 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-16, 21:35
Re: Datsville rev267 - by Max Martin Richter - 2013-11-16, 22:04
Re: Datsville rev267 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-11-17, 1:46
Re: Datsville rev298 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-12-06, 5:21
Re: Datsville rev308 - by Michael Horvath - 2013-12-09, 13:46

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