For Notepad2 Portable we include the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but that's mainly because it's under 1MB and super easy (no plugins or complex spaghetti settings like Notepad++). I can think of one advantage of the 64-bit version which would be opening larger files. Do you happen to know if most 32-bit plugins are available for the 64-bit version? It looks like it might be pretty close ( 32-bit and 64-bit.

And it may cause some issues with plugins. It would increase the install size to about 36MB from 20MB. We make decisions on an app by app basis, hence the question about Notepad++. All those apps ship with both 32-bit and 64-bit included. The exceptions are apps where there is a noticeable increase in performance without a huge size increase (7-Zip gets about 9% better performance in 64-bit mode for large archives and only adds a few MB), where it's useful for large data usage (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc get a boost when you have a ton of tabs open and stuff going on), or when it's required (PeerBlock uses different drivers for 32-bit vs 64-bit). That plus the fact that about 3/4 of the apps we've released are only available in 32-bit packages.

What use case were you thinking of that would make the 64-bit package useful for you?Īs a general rule, we only release 32-bit versions of most apps, since they work everywhere and there's no noticeable difference to the end user for about 99% of apps in performance.

Notepad++ 64 bit