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Gone back to 32-bit

Gone back to 32-bit

Posted Sep 13, 2006 9:15 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Gone back to 32-bit by alspnost
Parent article: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)

Emacs and XEmacs have visible improvements in 64-bit mode: larger buffers and the ability to deal with integers above 2^28 (or 2^30 in XEmacs).


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