<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span>Hi Sean,</span></div><div><span>Thank you for the figures, very helpful!</span></div><div><span>Hank</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, February 19, 2016 4:22 PM, Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">The reason I switched to a 64-bit compiler was to be able to address all<br clear="none">available memory on a user's machine (16 TB limit, as opposed to 4 GB<br clear="none">for 32-bit), as well as to implement loop parallelism in some parts of<br clear="none">the code. This is necessary for the cylindrical shell optimizer (not<br clear="none">yet released) to not take an unreasonable amount of time to arrive at a<br clear="none">solution. While I could use a 32-bit compiler for just the head<br clear="none">calculator component (the released software), I was trying to plan ahead<br clear="none">to make everything work together. Plus, most people are running 64-bit<br clear="none">operating systems these days anyway. If there is interest, I can<br clear="none">release a 32-bit version of the head calculator.<div class="yqt7362857051" id="yqtfd94292"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sean<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>