On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 08:05:17PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > I don't understand how installers work for 32-bit vs 64-bit. Normally > > does our Windows installer contain both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries? Or > > we just release 32-bit and 64-bit systems are fine with it? Same for > > Mac? > > So far we have never released any 64bit windows binary. This is fine, since > 64bit windows can execute 32bit binaries, and nobody complained yet about > LyX hitting the 32bit memory limit (around 3.5 GB on windows). I would not > switch to 64bit at this time, since this can introduce subtle bugs > (unfortunately the 64 C++ memory model differs on linux and windows, e.g. > long is 64bit on linux but 32bit on windows, so the fact that we have > working 64bit linux builds does not guarantee us working windows 64bit > builds).
I see. Thanks for the explanation. I agree we should not switch now. Scott
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