From: djc <peter.kaiser@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 64 bit official Windows builds
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:13:56 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c9cdaf1-4e20-4b6b-a1a6-a8ebcce1177c@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4870eef-4463-4819-8feb-699cf61d7f7c@googlegroups.com>
> Could I ask, what is the benefit of 64 bits compared to 32 bits for windows ?
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 emacs on Windows simply can't do the former, and is v-e-r-r-y slow at the latter, 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 Windows builds came along just in time to save me enormous effort programming around the limitations of the 32-bit version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-24 23:01 64 bit official Windows builds Sam Halliday
2015-12-25 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-25 13:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-12-25 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-25 15:32 ` Random832
2015-12-25 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-07 22:47 ` Arash Esbati
2016-01-08 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-08 21:42 ` Arash Esbati
2016-01-09 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1936.1452244338.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-08 10:44 ` Sam Halliday
2016-01-08 11:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1913.1452206888.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-09 13:04 ` Sam Halliday
2016-01-10 21:19 ` Arash Esbati
2016-02-11 21:21 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-11 21:35 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-11 21:53 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.556.1451028922.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-07 22:38 ` Sam Halliday
2016-01-07 23:15 ` Rasmus
2016-01-08 9:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-08 17:44 ` moocow062
2016-02-08 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-08 18:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-08 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-11 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-11 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-11 22:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-12 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-12 7:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-12 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-12 8:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-12 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-08 22:13 ` djc [this message]
2016-02-08 22:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
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