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Re: 64 bit official Windows builds
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djc |
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Re: 64 bit official Windows builds |
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Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:13:56 -0800 (PST) |
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> 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.
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- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/11
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/12
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/12
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/12
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/12
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/12
Re: 64 bit official Windows builds,
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Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Nicolas Petton, 2016/02/11