Re: Vim 7.3 released!

George V. Reilly wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, brianm <brian.mathis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What's the word on Windows 64-bit support? Has the work that's been
> > done here:
> > http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/wiki/Win64Binaries
> > been incorporated into this version?
> >
> > It would be great if the shell extension was now working with Win64
> > from the official package.
> >
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> I just updated the front page of http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/ after
> uploading vim73-x64.zip. Here's what I wrote there:
>
> Vim 7.3 was released on 2010/8/15.
> Win64Binaries<http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/wiki/Win64Binaries>
> are
> available here.
>
> The official Win32 installer from
> vim.org<http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc> is
> recommended over the Win64 binaries supplied here:
>
> - Full GUI installer
> - Installs a Win32 or Win64 gvimext.dll Shell Extension appropriate to
> the target machine. This provides Edit with Vim functionality in Explorer
> using the 32-bit (g)vim.exe.
> - "Big" version of GVim that includes language interfaces for Python 2.7,
> Python 3.1, Ruby 1.9, Tcl 8.3, and Perl 5.12;
> - CScope and NetBeans integration, and Global Input Method Editors for
> Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
> - Fully supported
>
> The Win64 binaries have:
>
> - Command-line installer
> - "Huge" version of GVim with a language interface for Python 2.7. (Most
> other languages that Vim has an interface for are not available as Win64
> binaries.)
> - Not supported; not well tested.
>
> There are still a few reasons why one might want a native 64-bit version of
> Vim (per Craig Barkhouse):
>
> 1. Editing files >4GB in size; rare I know, but still.
> 2. 64-bit WinPE does not have a WOW64 subsystem, hence you cannot run a
> 32-bit executable.
> 3. Windows Server 2008 R2 (i.e. Win7 Server) also does not have the WOW64
> subsystem, by default, although it is an optional component you can install.
> 4. Potential for perf gains, particularly in heavy memory operations like
> memcpy and memcmp which can be optimized for the 64-bit word size.

Thanks. Since more and more people are using 64 bit systems, I'll move
the link to the 64 bit version near the top of the PC section.

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