From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: djc Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 64 bit official Windows builds Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:13:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9c9cdaf1-4e20-4b6b-a1a6-a8ebcce1177c@googlegroups.com> References: <2577057e-98d3-41ce-ade2-1496648b09c3@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454969726 23102 80.91.229.3 (8 Feb 2016 22:15:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:15:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 08 23:15:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSu5c-0005Jj-Pu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:15:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSu5c-0008E8-6x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 17:15:24 -0500 X-Received: by 10.50.141.136 with SMTP id ro8mr1271880igb.13.1454969636740; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:13:56 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.61.200 with SMTP id s8mr25337igr.3.1454969636724; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:13:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!o2no3351267iga.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni7099igd.0!nntp.google.com!o2no3351258iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=185.110.72.137; posting-account=W7YkKQoAAACBK5oRU_iH-VD6YfJuNxe9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 185.110.72.137 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:13:56 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216771 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109063 Archived-At: > Could I ask, what is the benefit of 64 bits compared to 32 bits for windo= ws ? In emacs I count things that total more than a 32-bit counter can hold, and= I routinely edit multiple files of hundreds of megabytes. Pure 32-bit ema= cs on Windows simply can't do the former, and is v-e-r-r-y slow at the latt= er, to the point of being unusable. As a 64-bit program it does just fine,= and overall it is, as Eli has point out, a whole lot faster. 64-bit Windo= ws builds came along just in time to save me enormous effort programming ar= ound the limitations of the 32-bit version.