[Gllug] Which architecture?

[James Laver]

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.

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

--James
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