1 Oct
2005
1 Oct
'05
7:39 a.m.
Paul asked:
A client of mine has been experimenting with a 64 bit version of LINUX and is wondering if there has been a version of XFractint compiled under a 64 bit environment. Has this been done? Is it being considered for a future release?
Anyone with the appropriate target environment could try. Neither Jonathan (as far as I know) nor I have a 64 bit machine yet. It should just be a matter of taking account of long being 64 bits instead of 32 bits. It's hard to know in advance how pervasive the changes would be.
From it's roots as a DOS medium memory model application, I'm sceptical that there's anything about 64 bit Linux that would benefit xfractint without a major rewrite - but then it would be a different program.
Tim