It simply means that Illustrator has a bigger playground to play in. Of course, this is assuming you have a lot of RAM installed on your machine (at least 8GB), and also assuming that you're working with a lot of files or complex ones.īut as I mentioned earlier, the sheer fact that Illustrator is 64bit, doesn't actually make the application faster or better in any way. Depending on the situation, this could speed up processing time significantly. With Illustrator CS6, which is a 64bit application, on that same computer, Illustrator would be able to address all the available RAM that you have on your system. If you are working with complex files, Illustrator is only able to use a maximum of 3GB of your RAM. And say you were using Illustrator CS5, which is a 32bit application. So as an example, say you have a computer with 16GB of RAM.
Here's the thing though: while your computer may have the capacity to install 8GB or 16GB (or more) of RAM, a 32bit application can only see (or "address") a maximum of 2GB or RAM (in some circumstances, 3GB of RAM). In contrast, a 64bit application has the ability to address as much RAM as you can squeeze into your computer (theoretically). In theory, the more RAM you add to your computer, the larger of a desktop area you have, or the more capacity your computer has to work with documents and applications without having to shuffle information between your RAM and your hard drive. This is why if you have a lot of applications and documents open at once, you could see your system slow to a crawl. If you run out of RAM, your computer must "clear space" by temporarily copying stuff to your hard drive so that it can work on what you're asking for. As you create and open more documents, your desktop (RAM) becomes filled. So for example, when you launch Illustrator, your computer goes to your hard drive and copies that information into RAM so that you can work with Illustrator (like pulling a file out of the drawer and placing it on your desktop so that you can work with it). A computer can only process information using RAM (what's on your desktop).
The hard drive space is storage-like a drawer in your desk. Your computer has two kinds of memory-hard drive space and something called RAM. Not necessarily because of what 64bit actually *IS*, but really because of what Adobe had to do in order to move Illustrator to 64bit.
Truth be told, a 64bit version of Illustrator means a lot. But what exactly does that mean? Sometimes I think it's like that SNL spoof of Verizon's marketing around 4G LTE. With version CS6 (aka v.16) Adobe Illustrator is a 64bit application.
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