[Gdal-dev] moving fwtools/gdal programs from a 32 bit windows server to a 64 bit windows server

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/28/07, John Mitchell <mitchelljj98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are moving fwtools/gdal programs from a 32 bit windows server to a 64 bit
> windows server and I would like to know how to best take advantage of the
> server's 64 bit architecture when running gdal programs like gdalwarp,
> gdaltindex, and gdal_translate.

John,

For the forseeable future the FWTools binaries will remain
32bit mode.

I know some folks are building for win64 but I don't know
the details.  I am not convinced there will be much performance
benefit other than potentially large address spaces.

Best regards,
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