I followed the steps in:
http://lennybacon.com/2010/10/18/UltimateGuideToSpeedUpVisualStudio.aspx
to make my Visual Studio 2010 faster, including the advice toward the bottom labeled "64 bit support" about running editbin /largeaddressaware deveenv.exe . Is there any way I can verify that this command "worked"?
Since I didn't want to install a 1.6 GB heavy add-on to visual studio, I figured an alternative way.
You can upload the .exe onto www.virustotal.com, then under details you can see this near the bottom
ImageFileCharacteristicsExecutable, Large address aware
VMMap shows the effect of this, especially useful if your running program isn't necessarily using very much memory yet.
Just select the running process in VMMap and it will show a breakdown of the memory being used. There is an overall summary which includes the total memory used and free memory available, the latter of which is directly affected by the
largeaddressaware setting.
For an EXE that I tried this on recently...
Here's the unmodified EXE (see the FREE line):
And after turning the flag on:
That seems to confirm that at least its being recognized by Windows.
That text is at the roughly middle left in the screenshot from the VMMap site:
