Improved Peformance

EViews 8 performance has been enhanced through the introduction of a 64-bit version.

64-bit EViews

EViews is now available in both 32 and 64-bit versions.

One of the advantages of using a 64-bit version of Windows is the ability to access physical memory (RAM) beyond the 4-gigabyte (GB) range. By comparison, 32-bit versions of Windows are limited to a maximum of approximately 3.2 gigabytes of memory.

The 64-bit version of EViews 8 allows access to the larger amounts of physical RAM in machines running 64-bit Windows, allowing you to work with much bigger workfiles, both in terms of the number of observations per workfile page, and the number of individual objects allowed in a page.

For example, 32-bit versions of EViews only allow a maximum of 15 million observations in a page (and even then we recommend much smaller workfile ranges). The 64-bit version of EViews 8 allows up to 120 million observations per page. Similarly, the 32-bit versions of EViews can exhaust available memory with more than a few hundred thousand objects in the workfile, while the 64-bit version supports workfiles with millions of objects.