AMD Athlon64 Systems

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Sat Oct 18 08:31:38 UTC 2003


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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

Because it is unlikely that many companies will ship and support native 
AMD64 plugins, how feasible would it be to write a thunking layer for 
running 32bit plugins in the 64bit browser?

Warren





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