From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: moocow062@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 64 bit official Windows builds Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 09:44:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: 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 1454953789 17422 80.91.229.3 (8 Feb 2016 17:49:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:49:49 +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 18:49:48 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 1aSpwY-00055M-Ug for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:49:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47291 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSpwV-0003rx-2e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:49:43 -0500 X-Received: by 10.182.29.10 with SMTP id f10mr20220939obh.36.1454953494041; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:44:54 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.178.145 with SMTP id cy17mr427118igc.3.1454953494007; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:44:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!hb3no2251074igb.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni6930igd.0!nntp.google.com!hb3no2251063igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <2577057e-98d3-41ce-ade2-1496648b09c3@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=134.100.209.200; posting-account=oUapBAoAAAC4CeAnnWEtpKlGtFMKfvlK Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.100.209.200 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 17:44:54 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216759 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:49:31 -0500 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:109051 Archived-At: On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 12:01:56 AM UTC+1, Sam Halliday wrote: =20 > Are there any plans for GNU to create official 64 bit builds of Emacs rel= eases? I understand we use mingw to cross-compile, I'm used it to build 64= bit Windows applications in the past (from a GNU/Linux build machine) with= great success. Is there any technical reason why we can't do this for Emac= s? Could I ask, what is the benefit of 64 bits compared to 32 bits for windows= ? I can see that if you have to edit files bigger than 2Gb, it is necessary, = but otherwise doubling the size of the pointers just makes it slower (halve= s the cache size) and takes more memory.