On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:51:27PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > People not following development too closely may not be aware of it, > but we've had a lot of fun with amd64 recently. > > Specifically, Ariane committed a new vmmap implementation that tends to > actually use the 64 bits address space, in userland. She even has some > more nasty diff that does its best to put allocations far apart in that > address space.
This sounds really cool. Thank you Ariane. > Not surprisingly, a lot of software that claims to be 64 bits-ready isn't. > This touches all web navigators, most jit engines, and probably lots more > of software (our ports tree version of gnu-grep, for instance). If firefox or chrome can't fix their stuff in time what are our options for a graphical browser in the upcoming 5.0 release? To be honest I don't need anything fancy with javascript but just _some_ graphical browsers that displays pretty pictures would be nice. In that scenario can we find some old code and beef it up, or could we have our own openbsd web browser built from scratch? Not sure if it's OpenBSD's mission to include a browser but Google and Apple seem to think bundling a browser with their OS's is a must, even if they suck at it. I understand that we as a community have limited resources... and I don't think we should even think of reverting Arianes stuff nor put in that hack that Theo de Raadt asked us to google. Keep up the good work guys and gals, I'd help with coding but my X11 programming is very novice, let's see how time deals our cards eh? <cut rest of quoted message> Cheers, -peter
