[Bf-committers] Changes to Windows Compiler Support.

[Ray Molenkamp]

if you bunch up all releases since 2014, yes that does seems to imply 36% are still on 32 bit.

however if you split it out per version it paints a 'slightly' different picture

https://imgur.com/a/ZG0Gb

with only 13.2% of 32 bit users for 2.79 and in a rather steep decline from previous versions.

--Ray


using this data looking at just the latest blender (2.79) limiting it to


On 1/27/2018 9:39 AM, Dan McGrath wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> 6) 32 bit support
>>
>> I spend a fair amount of time building the blender deps in various
> formats, x86
>> it starting to cost more and more time since a few of the projects just
> seem
>> to test on linux, sometimes on windows/x64 but rarely on x86 leading to
> all kinds
>> of obscure (usually sse) related build errors. This is starting to take
> up a
>> significant amount of my time for only a small percentage of end users
> (last
>> time I asked ~15% of the blender downloads were for 32 bit users) and by
> the
>> time we release 2.8 this number will probably have dropped even further.
> Out of curiosity, I parsed all of our download.blender.org logs since near
> the end of 2014, right up until today and stored them in an sqlite3
> database for people to check. You can download the file at:
>
>   https://download.blender.org/ftp/dan/admin/blender_logs.sqlite.bz2
>
> I specifically limited the list to 200 status files and only valid
> filenames. The schema is:
>
> sqlite> .schema
> CREATE TABLE logs (log_date date NOT NULL, url text NOT NULL, filename text
> NOT NULL, blender_version varchar(10) NULL, bits integer);
> CREATE INDEX idx_bits on logs(bits);
> CREATE INDEX idx_filename on logs(filename);
> CREATE INDEX idx_url on logs(url);
> sqlite> select * from logs limit 3;
> 26/Mar/2014|/release/Blender2.49b/blender-2.49b-windows.exe|blender-2.49b-windows.exe|2.49b|0
> 26/Mar/2014|/release/Blender2.70/blender-2.70-OSX_10.6-x86_64.zip|blender-2.70-OSX_10.6-x86_64.zip|2.70|64
> 26/Mar/2014|/release/Blender2.69/blender-2.69-windows32.exe|blender-2.69-windows32.exe|2.69|32
> sqlite> select count(*) from logs;
> 304113
> sqlite> select count(*) from logs where bits = 32;
> 101756
> sqlite> select count(*) from logs where bits = 64;
> 175647
>
> (bits = 0 is for unknown bit size)
>
> Anyway, for those who were maybe interested, have fun!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan McGrath
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