[Gllug] Which architecture?

[Peter Corlett]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:00:02AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
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> Why would anyone want to run a 64bit firefox anyway ? its almost like
> running a 64bit email client!! whats the point :)

x86-64 doesn't just give you access to more memory through longer pointers.
It gives you more registers, meaning less spilling over to the stack. This
makes it faster even for small programs.

In any case, web browsers are no longer small programs. Firefox is currently
using 1.07GB of address space on this machine. (It's using 151MB of actual
RAM.)

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