As recently as LabVIEW 2015, the "conventional wisdom" (which, I confess, I followed, myself) was "Install 32-bit LabVIEW on 64-bit Windows unless you were doing really Big Data stuff on a PC with Big Memory". I (mis?)understanding was that this was particularly important with Device Drivers, and possibly with RT. I also (thought I) heard that NI was currently heading LabVIEW to a "pure" 64-bit platform.
I meant to ask at NI Week, but in the excitement of it all, I forgot -- should we now be considering installing LabVIEW 64-bit on our Windows 10 x64 platforms? What about LabVIEW RT platforms, including PXI controllers? [Hmm -- I didn't follow my own advice on the Forums and do a simple Google search -- just a second ...]
OK, the Web seems to say that LabVIEW 2016 has "more support for 64-bit computing". Maybe it is now time to take another piece of my own advice and "Do the Experiment" -- maybe I'll build a "pure" 64-bit system and see if I can port my LabVIEW RT code to it ...
Bob Schor
