[Gllug] Which architecture?

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM, James Laver <james.laver at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 May 2009, at 10:00, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>> Why would anyone want to run a 64bit firefox anyway ? its almost like
>> running a 64bit email client!! whats the point :)
>
> The web has got to the state when you either throw hardware at the
> problem or go back to browsing in links.
>
> I typically have in excess of 130 tabs open in firefox at once.
> Javascript, flash, animated gifs etc. all combine to eat cpu. If you
> use a lot of tabs, you need a lot of grunt to get rid of it. Extra
> register space helps.


130 tabs !?!?!?

My web hasn't got to that state (and never will) :-)

>
> It's not something I've benchmarked, but the 64 bit feels faster on my
> inordinately high usage of firefox.
>
> --James


I am sure *nobody* before has thought about benchmarking this :-D
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