[AccessD] 32->64 bit Conversion

[Arthur Fuller]

Thanks, Bil. Depressing as your experience is, it is also a moment of
clarity in a world filled with noise. I can almost imagine Bill Gibson and
Bill Gates ( let's call them the Kill Bills, with a nod to Quentin
Tarantino). sitting to figure out he next move to Dystopia. There should be
a new nation nominated for membership in the UN, called Dystopia. Simiar to
Ethiopia but with even more violence, ad graphic novel spinpoffs.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 3:56 PM Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> 64 bit t can use more memory- usually a good thing. However the one major
> app I was involved with over past 6 years gained nothing whatever in speed.
>
> Not only that but we had some kind of limits that would be reached on
> number of reports that could print individually in code - we hoped it would
> increase 64 bit but it did not.
>
> I want others to give their impression too but the program we had was
> larger, using more class modules and calculations than anything I ever
> worked on in Access and we gained nothing going to 64 bit.
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 3:50 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I guess that I'm already almost halfway down the path, but it has become
> > time to wonder why I am doing this in the first place. The obvious answer
> > is that the client requested it, and while an engineer in his own field,
> he
> > is not a software guy (hence my employment). But it's become time for me
> at
> > least to pose the question, What am  gaining by this move to 64-bit?
> > Performance? And if so, are there any benchmarks to verify this?
> > Compatibility with the default Office installation? And if so, why is
> that
> > important? Com[atinility with current and future hardware? Something else
> > that hasn't occurred to me?
> > I am as willing as anyone to spend my client's dollars, but I also have,
> at
> > least intermittently, a conscience, and would like to know what benefits
> I
> > am delivering for the dollars the client is spending.
> > Suggestions in the way of justification are invited.
> >
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Arthur