AnyCPU vs. x64

[whugemann]

For my first project I used the 'Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU' package, just because it was the topmost, which had the most downloads. I am however developing exclusively for 64 bit Windows and thus thinking about 'Q16 Magick.NET-Q16-x64' instead. The difference just seems to be that the DLL 'Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.dll' is replaced by 'Magick.NET-Q16-x64.dll' (?), which makes little difference in regard to disk storage.

Is there any difference in performance?

I am about to migrate quite a few smaller solutions from VisualBasic Script to Magick.NET. Thus this decision will affect all of the exe-files created, which I am planning to place all in the same folder, together with the Magick.NET runtime DLLs.

[dlemstra]

There will be a tiny performance improvement because you will skip an if statement that decides if the 32-bit or 64-bit path should be used. And there will be a reduction in download size during development. However if you exclusively target x64 I would recommend you to use the X64 version. But if you have people using this on an Arm64 machine I would advise you to stay with the AnyCPU version.