Re: 64 bit official Windows builds

[moocow062]

On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 12:01:56 AM UTC+1, Sam Halliday wrote:
 
> Are there any plans for GNU to create official 64 bit builds of Emacs 
> releases? 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 Emacs?

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 (halves the 
cache size) and takes more memory.