AMD Athlon64 Systems
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Oct 17 20:17:01 UTC 2003
Thomas Dodd (ted at cypress.com) said:
> >>Does a 64bit mozilla even make sense right now?
> > What do you mean? Mozilla recompiled for 64-bits on Alpha is a
>
> Only talking about x86 here. So woul a 64bit version orf mozilla to run
> on the K8 be much of a gain?
It might benefit from having more registers to use. Note
that xptcall would need a AMD64 implementation if there isn't
one already. Similarly, OpenOffice would need UNO code.
Of course, with a 64-bit mozilla, you can't use any 32-bit
plugins.
Bill
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