I don’t see much reason to keep that dying platform around, and think it would help it it were retired (but not (yet) 32-bit Linux). I see work on Julia seemingly blocked on it (getting rid of libm, otherwise done, or almost done). And I’m not sure, maybe it’s slowing down very important work like…

Build and test on 32 bit is really slow. MSYS2 v.s. Cygwin build and test time Shell env MSYS2 Cygwin MSYS2 Cygwin toolchain mingw64 mingw64 mingw32 mingw32 arch x86_64 x86_64 x86 x86 Build . . . . Sysimage built/s 55.9 55.9 87.7 85.9 Precompilation/s 148.9 147.1 691.6 672.4 Pre–…

I wonder what is the number of Windows 32-bit downloads?

[image] woclass: So, you mean move Win i686 (32-bit) from “tier 2” to “tire 3”. To tier 3, or 4 or not offered at all. I don’t really care, whatever makes sense. I don’t even use 64-bit Windows, though I want that kept. :slight_smile: [image] dlakelan: but just want to point out that a l…

I get a feeling of deja vu and am certain I’ve written this before. I have exactly one use case for 32-bit Julia on Windows and that is to ccall into a proprietary binary-only 32-bit dll needed to communicate with a piece of expensive hardware. That library will never be updated to something sane a…

So that means you DON’T want Win32 supported forever (just for you)? But possibly needed for others? It would still be supported with Julia 1.6 LTS, at least until it’s no longer LTS… and unsupported Julia versions will keep working… Since this could be a problem for people (in your situation, and …

Thanks, I did take a look at julia_systems.csv, the Win32 downloads (excluding CI downloads), they are not nothing but on the decline, are there are e.g. 741 users for 1.7.2 (0.94% of Windows users for that Julia version) vs. 78370 for Win64 and 32699 for Apple: [mynd] I’m plotting request_addrs …

I noticed that conda-forge dropped support for 32-bit Windows: Dropping Windows 32 support opened 04:34PM - 11 Apr 18 UTC (UTC) closed 04:34PM - 11 Apr 18 UTC (UTC) [ocefpaf] …

When we migrate to using UCRT, we may only be able to support x86_64 if we don’t want to add support for libc++. MSYS2 env set [image] MSYS2 - Environments The differences between the environments is mainly between environment variables, default compilers/linkers, architecture, system l…

[image] dlakelan: I know you are talking about windows specifically but just want to point out that a lot of small cheap SBCs such as Raspberry Pi are still using 32 bit so the Linux version makes sense. Not a single Raspberri Pi model is x86, they’re all ARM. From the Supported Platforms sec…

Is anyone using 32-bit Julia on Windows?

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You can look at the PkgServer statistics, they’re public: Announcing: package download stats!

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Is anyone using 32-bit Julia on Windows?

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