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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