April 2005 - Posts

Isn’t my code going to be faster on 64-bit???
28 April 05 10:01 PM | joshwil | 12 Comments   

[updated 10:50am 5/2/05: It turns out that I copied and pasted an error in my code from the newsgroup posting I was answering. However a kind reader was able to spot it and I've fixed it, I'm getting new data and will updated graphs later today, however Read More...

Filed under: Writing code targeted at 64bit., Writing agnostic code.

How do exes/dlls generated with the /platform:x switch interact?
08 April 05 11:05 AM | joshwil | 11 Comments   

[fixed typo: 9:37am] I received a question about this recently, so i figured i'd elaborate here with a little example... Let's assume we have the following three dlls: anycpu.dll -- compiled "any cpu" x86.dll -- compiled "x86" x64.dll -- compiled "x64" Read More...

Paint.Net is pretty cool, 20 minutes to get it running on 64-bit is even cooler!
07 April 05 11:35 AM | joshwil | 7 Comments   

Last night I played with Paint.Net for a while and got it running on the native 64-bit CLR with whidbey... Pretty cool stuff!!! Actually, a while might be overstating things... It took longer to install a copy of VS 2005 on my clean AMD64 machine than Read More...

Filed under: Writing code targeted at 64bit., Writing agnostic code.