We might be getting Windows64 version of Free42

[zeno333]

(06-22-2017 03:23 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  

(06-18-2017 06:54 PM)zeno333 Wrote:  I made a a request and the developer said he would look into it...if you want to see a Windows64 bit version of Free42 say so here...let's start the cheering...

Well... I have looked into it, as follows:

I created two VirtualBox VMs on a two-year-old MacBook Pro, and installed Fedora 25 on both. The 32-bit version on one, the 64-bit version on the other.

I built Free42 from the latest publicly available source (2.0.4) on both, and then copied the 32-bit executable to the 64-bit VM.

I ran two tests, with the 32-bit and 64-bit executables, in the 64-bit VM: inverting a random complex 100x100 matrix, and taking the element-wise sine of a random complex 100x100 matrix.

For the first test, the 32-bit executable took 4.1 seconds, and the 64-bit version took 2.3 seconds.

For the second test, the 32-bit executable took 0.27 seconds, and the 64-bit version took 0.18 seconds.

About th3e speed gain that would be expected...The Chrome web browser is available in Windows 64 bit, and pretty much the reason is not memory issues, but speed...the makers of Chrome have made great efforts to migrate users to the 64 bit version as has been reported in online news reports...Windows is going 64 bit and the best computer calc out there should also be 64 bit...the speed increase justifies it...For the same reason there is 64 Windows Chrome out there there also should be 64 bit Free42...