Timeline for What benefits does the 64-bit version of Notepad++ have over the 32-bit version?
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| Nov 2, 2022 at 12:14 | comment | added | Alex Che | According to NPP community forums 32-bit NPP fails to open files larger than ~500MB. But even 64-bit NPP cannot open files larger than 2GB due to the limitation of the underlying text engine Scintilla. | |
| Dec 1, 2021 at 16:28 | comment | added | LawrenceC | I also believe 64-bit programs can also run under later versions WinPE which doesn't have the WOW subsystem to support 32-bit programs. | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 14:22 | comment | added | Djensen | For the average user, it probably isn't going to matter. But I have had a few use cases, where i had to load out data/dump data from a database and also view logfiles with a lot of data, and then check for something specific in those file. I can't remember if it was 100mb or several gigabytes, I just remember that most of my sophisticated editors crashed hard, when trying to open it. I'm not sure of the max capacity of Notepad++ in 32 bit, except, that its not able to use more than around 4gb of ram. 64bit is practically unlimited ram. Check here: stackoverflow.com/a/4077938/1016987 | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 11:29 | comment | added | Alexey | Are you serious? What is the size of a text file that a 32bit version wouldn't be able to handle? Where would text files of that size be used? | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 17:48 | history | answered | Djensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |