> Any idea of the loss of performance given that virtually all PCs > these days are actually 64 bit machines?
My dual-core 3.2GHz machine supports 64-bit, but I installed a 32-bit OS for compatibility. So, 64-bit math is a performance hit for me. We can have the default "unit" be whatever the native "long" size is, 32-bit on 32-bit, 64-bit on 64-bit, so you always get the biggest "fastest" size. But we can still detect when your fastest size isn't big enough for some odd HUGE layout file. > As someone pointed out, couldn't that be a build option? If someone > needs to design boards larger than 2 meters, would it be a hard thing > to do to build a 64 bit version? Of course it can. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user