There are some other advantages to having a lot of address space. For instance, 64-bit OdinMonkey maps 4 GiB of contiguous address space to put all its addresses in, which it therefore knows won't be used by anything else. I forget the exact details, but having 4 GiB of addresses all to itself helps it make some optimizations.
HeinzDo wrote:That may be, but I want as much as possible to use only 64bit software. And since it is very annoying that Mozilla now no 64-bit Firefox offers.
Is it because 64bit is a bigger number or is there another reason why, say, VLC needs to use more then 4GB of RAM?
I use a 64 bit operating system and I want to use 64bit software on it, that's all.
What if it was slower than the 32bit software?
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Grantius wrote:What if it was slower than the 32bit software?
I am now at work and there I have the 32-bit Firefox. But a difference in the speed you can probably find only with tools. I notice there is no difference when surfing.
Besides, it's not like those unofficial builds wouldn't benefit from having an officially supported tier 1 64-bit Windows build. Just look at all the test failures that they're addressing to get things into a better state - there's no reason to think the unofficial builds don't suffer from the same problems (no matter how obscure they may be).
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