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Win64 builds #14

Open brian6932 opened 1 year ago

brian6932 commented 1 year ago

It's 2023, a Win64 bin build should really exist, and be prioritized over the Win32 one.

ant-222 commented 11 months ago

As a happy user of the 32-bit version of Sylpheed on my old machine with Windows XP, may I ask you why a 64-bit binary is requied? Is there a situation where the 32-bit one does not work?

brian6932 commented 11 months ago

Is that a joke?

  1. No one said remove the 32bit build
  2. x86 is an ancient ISA, we have x86-64, x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4, which each allow the compiler to optimize for more modern instruction sets
ant-222 commented 11 months ago

No, it is not a joke. I shall be grateful if the 32-bit binary shall continue to be provided. On the other hand, I doubt Sylpheed will gain any visible performance improvement because of the more optimal machine code. It will not be checking mail faster... If, however, I am wrong and your request will solve or at least widen someknown performnce bottlenecks, then I am all for it!