What's the situation regarding the 64bit executable?

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Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

64-bit executable will likely bring only minimal performance gains.

I'd rather see a host of other bugs fixed, new sound, better graphics, etc. before they waste time on a 64 bit executable.

That may well be the case.

I was knocked out by the difference in rendering times between Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 (32-bit) and the more recent CS5 64-bit). However, Adobe worked very closely with Nvidia to fully exploit Nvidia's CUDA structure calling it their Mercury rendering engine to reduce to mere seconds the video processing which formerly took minutes -- or even hours. Playback of even huge multitrack video & audio files were now smooth as silk, and not choppy as before in the earlier 32-bit CS4 version. Stability and fewer-to-no crashes have been a major benefit, too.

But, I agree as you imply: 64-bit programming isn't necessarily the magic answer. Adobe threw their massive software programming resources into the CS5 project, and have refined it even more very recently with a 5.5 update. It may be unrealistic to expect a smaller dev operation like 1C to fully capitalize on 64-bit potential in any meaningful way (frame-rates, stutters, stability) than what they could more readily achieve with their current 32-bit coding optimization. And I, for one, don't wanna wait another 7 years to find out!