Obituary for 32-bit

***MayImilae*** · 05-20-2014, 10:36 AM #1

New article on the Dolphin blog - https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2014/05/19/obituary-32bit/

Feel free to discuss the article on this thread.

Previously discussed in the Removing Support for 32bit windows? thread.

**DJBarry004** · 05-20-2014, 10:52 AM #2

Finally the end of 32-bit era, I guess.

**mbc07** · 05-20-2014, 11:25 AM #3

So, I still see newer builds having 32-bit version, the drop already occurred or this is just a pre-announcement?

***MayImilae*** · (This post was last modified: 05-20-2014, 11:34 AM by MayImilae.)

It occurred just before the article went up. The 32bit buildbot is no more. In the coming days/weeks the 32bit-specific code will be removed from Dolphin.

***Shonumi*** · 05-20-2014, 11:58 AM #5

Those speed charts say it all.

**JMC47** · (This post was last modified: 05-20-2014, 12:01 PM by JMC47.)

That was shocking to me. I know people will argue me on my other charts, but that one is rock solid, no matter what settings I used, 32-bit is really slow.

**mbc07** · 05-20-2014, 12:09 PM #7

(05-20-2014, 12:01 PM)JMC47 Wrote: ...no matter what settings I used, 32-bit is really slow.

I strongly agree

Zer07777 · 05-20-2014, 04:32 PM #8

32bit software need to go , now if only firefox would follow in dolphins footsteps , the only thing 64 bit cant do is a decent media player , the 64bit version of mpc-hc and vlc both suck

**degasus** · 05-20-2014, 07:41 PM #9

media player should also improve a lot because of 64 bit. Decoding videos is a register intensiv work.

**delroth** · 05-20-2014, 07:54 PM **#10**

Most of the high-performance decoding is done using hand-written XMM/YMM assembly where the number of GPRs does not really matter.