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Re: 64 bit official Windows builds


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: 64 bit official Windows builds
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 08:58:45 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Could I ask, what is the benefit of 64 bits compared to 32 bits for windows ?
> It will run roughly twice faster.
[...]
> slower, because running a 32-bit executable on a 64-bit Windows
> requires expensive thunking for every call to any Windows API,

Holy crap?  Really?  It's hard to believe that 64-bit Windows's
emulation of the 32-bit API is so inefficient that it causes a "rough
slowdown" by a factor 2 in an application like Emacs.

Do you see such a factor-of-2 difference when doing "rm lisp/**/*.elc;
make"?  Or in which kind of circumstance have you seen such a slowdown?


        Stefan




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