VisualWget 2.4b1 Release (August 15, 2010)

[Khomsan Ph.]

New Features
- Sound notification when download has been finished
- Downloads finished action Freezable & Cancelable options

[BrainDedd]

Thanks ... any chance of a 64 bit release?

[Khomsan Ph.]

Hello Brain,

VWget itself is .NET Framework application that built for any CPU.
And it should be function on x64 system as well.
The wget binary was built with MinGW...
...and it is a 32bit application, this one need to be considered.
But wget binaries doesn't perform a lot of memory operation.
So we may not get big performance improvement for this.

Is there a good reason why we need wget x64?

Thank you,
Khomsan

[BrainDedd]

Hi Khomsan,

I was just wondering since there was a 64 bit version before. Mostly
like to keep everything 64 bit for compatibility reasons. :)

[Khomsan Ph.]

Hi Brain,

In previous version one user had compiled...
...the x64 version and sent it to me via email.
If you have x64 machine, you can grab the vwget source...
...and see if you can build & test it.

From my reading below...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/32-bit-64-bit-faq.aspx
Wget x86 should be able to run on x64 machine.
Since it is not an antivirus program or a hardware driver.
But may have little (may not noticable) performance lost.

Thanks for your opinion,
Khomsan