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> I understand emacs's architectural reasoning for it -- and that is a choice. I think the choice they make is to spend their very limited time on more useful
by reneky 16y ago
> I understand emacs's architectural reasoning for it -- and that is a choice.
I think the choice they make is to spend their very limited time on more useful features. I'm sure many of the core Emacs developers would be very happy if someone would fix this limitation. It would be a very invasive change, a fair amount of work.
- jrockway 16y agoAny change on 32-bit machines will require special CPU instructions, massive Lisp slowdowns, or massive integer math slowdowns. Considering you can't even buy a new 32-bit machine anymore, however, I don't really see this as a major problem.
- koenigdavidmj 16y ago>Considering you can't even buy a new 32-bit machine anymore, however Netbooks.
- dagw 16y agoMost netbooks that have come out in the past 6 month have a 64-bit CPU. Only the old atom N2xx series is 32bit, and they are rapidly being phased out.