On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > > http://blog.chromium.org/2014/06/try-out-new-64-bit-windows- > > canary-and.html > > > > What is the status of Firefox builds for Win64? When Mozilla releases > > Win64 builds (again), we'll be seen as reacting to Google when we've > > actually been working on it for a while. :\ > > > > Does it make sense to ship 64-bit Firefox before shipping > mutli-process/sandboxed Firefox? I worry that 64-bit Firefox will be more > memory hungry than 32-bit Firefox and if it lands first then it will be > harder to land multi-process Firefox which is also likely to use more > memory. I think having multi-process sooner is more important than having > 64-bit sooner, if there is such a choice to make. IMO, it would be good to > make explicit choices instead of just shipping whichever is done first. > I suppose it depends on how long it's going to take to land multiprocess Firefox. Given that much of the benefit of 64-bit is that ASLR works a lot better, if we *don't* have multiprocess and aren't going to get it soon, then it's that much more important to land 64-bit. -Ekr _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
