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Re: 64 bit official Windows builds
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Óscar Fuentes |
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Re: 64 bit official Windows builds |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:29:29 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Third, when Emacs is built with a 64-bit compiler, it runs faster, not
> slower, because running a 32-bit executable on a 64-bit Windows
> requires expensive thunking for every call to any Windows API,
> something that happens a lot.
For a pointer-chasing program like Emacs, data cache effects are orders
of magnitude more expensive than thunking. That's what I observe with
similar applications. As for Emacs, I see no performance difference
among 32 bit and 64 bit executables, for ordinary use. That's how it
should be: a good interactive application is never supposed to make the
user wait, and Emacs does a decent job at that.
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, moocow062, 2016/02/08
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/08
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds,
Óscar Fuentes <=
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Stefan Monnier, 2016/02/11
- Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/11
- 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, djc, 2016/02/08