[ANN] Release 9.6.2 RC-4

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Tue Apr 13 11:15:54 EDT 2021


On 4/13/21 4:48 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:

> No - its either running as a 32-bit app (if you have installed the 
> 32-bit version of LC) or as a 64-bit app (if you have installed the 
> 64-bit version of LC) - there's no emulation going on - the difference 
> is the processor mode the executables are run in.
> 
> Windows, macOS and Linux all handle 32-bit vs 64-bit exactly the same 
> way... The versions of the OS which can run both, have two sets of code 
> for everything in the OS - one 32-bit and one 64-bit. The only 
> difference is what those OSes call it / how they package it.

Hmmm... the release notes under Platform support | Windows says

"Note: On 64-bit Windows installations, LiveCode runs as a 32-bit 
application through the WoW layer."

Do the release notes need updating?

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com




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