From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: dired-duplicates
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 09:38:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUyamsFaXtYu7MaH@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48fece87-5bd9-4d37-a6bb-2e9b9da00bc2@gmx.at>
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 09:00:11AM +0100, Harald Judt wrote:
[...]
> Yes, but I wonder, why do this? There can be 32-bit systems as well as
> 64-bit systems that can have only 2GiB RAM, both might fail when trying to
> open a file that has e.g. 1536MiB. Then, there might be both types of
> systems that have 8gb of RAM that can open such files with no problems?
Eli's remark was about Emacs's integer size (which is used to address
spots in buffers). On 32 bit *builds* it isn't wide enough for big
buffers. On 64 bit builds it is.
It's about Emacs's build, not the OS around it. Think "address space",
just one or two onion layers further.
Cheers
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t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-09 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-31 10:34 [ELPA] New package: dired-duplicates Harald Judt
2023-10-31 12:21 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-10-31 21:05 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-01 2:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-11-01 15:16 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-11-01 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-01 16:28 ` Drew Adams
2023-11-01 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-01 16:33 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-01 11:32 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-01 20:04 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-01 21:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-02 8:44 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-03 8:19 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-03 20:19 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-04 15:27 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-06 9:33 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-10 8:37 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-10 10:02 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-23 6:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-10-31 21:24 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-01 17:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-01 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-01 13:53 ` Visuwesh
2023-11-01 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-01 17:57 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-01 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-01 20:09 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-02 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 20:29 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-09 5:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 8:00 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-09 8:38 ` tomas [this message]
2023-11-09 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 8:53 ` tomas
2023-11-09 9:18 ` Harald Judt
2023-11-09 14:52 ` Harald Judt
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