What's the situation regarding the 64bit executable?

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Originally Posted by Rattlehead

Pardon my ignorance, but what would a 64-bit exe bring to the table?

Larger memory space. More memory.

2 to the power of 32 is 4GB. Windows and stuff take close to 2 GB, so 2 left for applications. If you have more than 4 and you use a 32 bit OS, you never use anything above 4. Now if you have, say, 8 GB, that is 6 GB for applications if you use a 64bit OS.

That does not accelerate applications as such, but depending on how the app manages the memory, it could. For instance by pre-loading a bunch of stuff in memory that would have been on disk. More important is the fact that your app can be much bigger and powerful.