Re: [ELPA] New package: dired-duplicates

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 09:38:50 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From:  <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 09:00:11AM +0100, Harald Judt wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Yes, but I wonder, why do this? There can be 32-bit systems as well as
> > 64-bit systems that can have only 2GiB RAM, both might fail when trying to
> > open a file that has e.g. 1536MiB. Then, there might be both types of
> > systems that have 8gb of RAM that can open such files with no problems?
> 
> Eli's remark was about Emacs's integer size (which is used to address
> spots in buffers). On 32 bit *builds* it isn't wide enough for big
> buffers. On 64 bit builds it is.
> 
> It's about Emacs's build, not the OS around it. Think "address space",
> just one or two onion layers further.

Actually, it's about both.