[racket] preference: 32-bit or 64-bit racket?

Oh I didn't realize that, I thought it still experimental-ish. That's great.

Building Racket on Windows has seemed daunting. For the same reasons
I'm using Racket I don't have full MSVC installed these days (IIUC you
can't build with Express). And gcc has felt like more Cygwin than I've
really wanted on my laptop. But when I get some time to try I will
give it a shot.

It would also be positive to have an official build someday. Vista 64
was otaku. Windows 7 64-bit is quite mainstream.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> We don't yet have a 64-bit build for Windows on the download pages, but
> Racket builds, runs, and is supported for 64-bit mode in Windows (Vista
> and up).
>
> At Wed, 9 Mar 2011 13:56:56 -0500, Greg Hendershott wrote:
>> On Windows 7 I would if I could. A 64-bit build of Racket for Windows
>> could utilize more than 2 GB.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Increased memory bandwidth and more registers are the main benefits
>> > I'm aware of. I'm not sure if Racket exploits the later, but it should
>> > benefit from the former.
>> >
>> > N.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org>
>> wrote:
>> > ...
>> >>
>> >> In any case, I thought I'd just ask: how many of you are using 64-bit
>> builds, and how many are using 32-bit builds? Are there compelling advantages
>> to the 64-bit build that aren't occurring to me?
>> >>
>> >> John
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