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64-bit EvE Client? Would it make a difference?
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Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-03-22 14:26:12 UTC
For those more technically savy among us, I ask this question. Would a 64-bit client improve the EvE experience?

Just wondering.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#2 - 2014-03-22 14:31:24 UTC
No. None of the benefits 64-bit provide make any difference or are particularly relevant to the EVE client.
Prince Kobol
#3 - 2014-03-22 14:38:57 UTC
Wow, good thing this has never been discussed at length before
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2014-03-22 16:27:31 UTC
Prince Kobol wrote:
Wow, good thing this has never been discussed at length before

I know right. Next I guess we'll debate about Eve dying.

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Real Serious PVPer
Doomheim
#5 - 2014-03-22 16:45:05 UTC
Targets would prob just die faster

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Serene Repose
#6 - 2014-03-22 16:55:36 UTC
It'll make as much difference as that pair of 20-finger gloves.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Tetsuo Tsukaya
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2014-03-22 17:13:44 UTC
Tippia wrote:
No. None of the benefits 64-bit provide make any difference or are particularly relevant to the EVE client.


What about if it was 64 bit... in the cloud
Pew Terror
All of it
#8 - 2014-03-22 17:17:58 UTC
Tetsuo Tsukaya wrote:
Tippia wrote:
No. None of the benefits 64-bit provide make any difference or are particularly relevant to the EVE client.


What about if it was 64 bit... in the cloud


With touch?
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#9 - 2014-03-22 17:27:50 UTC
Pew Terror wrote:
Tetsuo Tsukaya wrote:
Tippia wrote:
No. None of the benefits 64-bit provide make any difference or are particularly relevant to the EVE client.

What about if it was 64 bit... in the cloud

With touch?

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Toshiro Ozuwara
Perkone
#10 - 2014-03-22 17:42:18 UTC
We'll need a kickstarter for this ...

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Kathtrine
My Dot Corp
#11 - 2014-03-22 17:48:08 UTC
Serene Repose wrote:
It'll make as much difference as that pair of 20-finger gloves.


But I have 20 fingers!

Actually it would only make a difference Client side.

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#12 - 2014-03-22 18:20:31 UTC
The main benefit of 64 bit, is that you can use more than 2GB of ram for a single process.

Eve rarely comes close to that. thus, no significant benefit.

That benefit comes with costs:
A: It restricts it to 64 bit OS. So to support 32bit, you have to support 2 different clients. Which means you have to optimize for the 32 bit one anyway.
B: 64 bit registers are bigger. Thus you're actually throwing more data around. If you don't need that size, it's a waste.

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Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#13 - 2014-03-22 19:36:12 UTC
Jake Warbird wrote:
Prince Kobol wrote:
Wow, good thing this has never been discussed at length before

I know right. Next I guess we'll debate about Eve dying.



EVE is dying???






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Solhild
Doomheim
#14 - 2014-03-22 21:57:39 UTC
I can confirm that 32 and 64 are 28 and 54 in base twelve.

I hope that helps.
Pew Terror
All of it
#15 - 2014-03-22 23:35:17 UTC
Solhild wrote:
I can confirm that 32 and 64 are 28 and 54 in base twelve.

I hope that helps.


Confirming base 12 is superior to base 10 in every way. Lowest number with 4 divisors rules fractional representations.
Dominic karin
Versatility Production Corporation' LLC
#16 - 2014-03-22 23:37:12 UTC
Tetsuo Tsukaya wrote:
Tippia wrote:
No. None of the benefits 64-bit provide make any difference or are particularly relevant to the EVE client.


What about if it was 64 bit... in the cloud


I got that reference, I feel somehow relevant now.