Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows

Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by raverbashing on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:24AM (#4818385)

Don't compare the Virtual Size of process. This is not how it works. And yes, running x64 on my Linode/

Also, see the limitations of MongoDB and Go for example, in 32-bit systems, they are very relevant.

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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by davidw on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:51AM (#4818429)

I look at RSS in those numbers too, and they're lower on 32 bit systems, obviously, That is how it works.

I'm not interested in MongoDB in the slightest, and while Go looks pretty cool, I'll wait for it to mature.

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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by raverbashing on Thursday November 22, 2012 @07:45AM (#4818543)

Sure, still, what really affects memory usage is data, not programs.

So if memory is an issue in 64-bits, most likely it will be an issue as well in 32-bit. In some cases it may make a difference, but they're not that common.

Even EC2 Micro supports 64-bits now

Sure, 64-bit uses more memory, like 32-bit use more memory than 16-bit, or like programs in ARM (and maybe Thumb) take more space than programs in x86

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