On 03/23/2011 11:02 AM, Juan Lang wrote: >> What I meant as 'clean start' is that they could drop all hacks in 64bit >> environment. I wonder if that happened. > > Speculating whether MS would have done this is probably not a very > useful exercise. Still, I'd say it's exceedingly improbable: > 1. The cost of reviewing all the code for what might be a hack is > high, and what's the benefit? Less code to maintain can't be an > answer, because the 32-bit versions of Windows still need the hacks. > 2. Apps written for 64-bit Windows aren't created in a vacuum: > they're probably ported from a 32-bit codebase first, or 32-bit and > 64-bit versions are co-developed. The same, possibly erroneous > assumptions that a 32-bit application might make would therefore need > to be maintained in a 64-bit version. > > A better place to ask questions like these might be > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ > --Juan > >
Still, we're probably not going to encounter the 64-bit equivalent of "If program is simcity, do this with the memory instead of that" Though there are probably many newer hacks to worry about instead. --Scott Ritchie
