Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:32:58 +0000, dwilson wrote: > Beside praying and pestering, what can we D non-experts do to help get a > stable 64-bit dmd available? > > Killer D features are strings, slick built in dynamics arrays, no > headers files to keep in sync, and the other nice features often praised > by others. I'm not sure yet that D is my favorite language, but it's > in the list of top three. > > Killing D (at least for me) is the limit choices for compiling on 64-bit > Linux with D2 and preferably Phobos instead of Tango. My setup, for > reasons I haven't investigated deeply, can't run 32-bit anything, and I > do intend to work on huge arrays of data, a few GB in RAM. As for > Phobos, it's obviously more Mars-related than "Tango" :)
Didn't Walter say about one year ago that it only takes 1-2 months to finish the 64-bit port.