On Thursday January 22 2009, David Bolt wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, James Knott wrote:-
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Editing LARGE pics. in Gimp will give you an idea of how much better a 64-bit release is over 32-it. There are other examples, but your logic is sound.....use it!
Fred
And of course, you can work on really large files with vi. ;-)
There's a thought...
<warfare type="religeous" catalyst="preferred_editor"> Does it also mean that Emacs won't be constantly swapping? </warfare>
What it does mean, of course, is that for any given hardware and mix of applications, swapping will be _more_ likely, since all 64-bit code and data are substantially larger than their 32-bit counterparts.
:-)
Regards, David Bolt
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