We might be getting Windows64 version of Free42

[Thomas Okken]

(06-22-2017 08:20 AM)Luigi Vampa Wrote:  I am afraid "the developer" loves his child so much, that he may do whatever his heart wants. And remember rule #1... "Dad is always right" ;0)

Oy, let's not get carried away with the anthropomorphization. :-D

So, anyway, a best-case speed-up factor of about 1.5 or 1.6. I haven't tried nasty functions in INTEG yet, but generally speaking, the speed-up while running programs will probably be less, because the program execution logic doesn't really benefit from 64-bit. (On the other hand, the program execution logic is very simple and pretty efficient, so there's not much there to speed up in the first place.)

Most people will probably never notice the difference, but for those who do actually work with large matrices or numerical computations with poor convergence behavior, more speed is always a good thing.

It is annoying that Windows makes this harder than it should be -- no fat binaries, and no support for running 64-bit binaries in 32-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows is annoyingly refusing to die. But I'll do it eventually. I don't consider it a priority, though; there are a bunch of things that I consider more important -- I took down the to-do page from my web site, but there is still a TODO file in the source code package -- and this will go near the bottom of that list. Which, if progress goes as I expect, will mean "sometime this year."