I suspect we'd want to add some extra token like "it's ok to update this 32-bit build to a 64-bit build", and have all the gating logic live on the client-side. Odds are if we want to change the criteria we'd have to change the client anyway.
-Ted On Thu, May 12, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Ben Hearsum wrote: > Do you have thoughts on how we'll be able to serve the users the correct > build if we have to base the decision on plugins they may have or other > information that's not in the update ping? We can already detect 32-bit > builds on 64-bit Windows through the build target, but information about > plugins or RAM is not something we know about when serving updates. > > On 2016-05-12 11:45 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Given all the discussion around SSE[2] lately, I was curious as to > > whether we had made any plans to update Windows users that are running > > 32-bit Windows builds on a 64-bit Windows OS to our 64-bit Windows > > builds. The 64-bit Windows builds do use SSE2, since that's a baseline > > requirement for x86-64 processors, and the overall performance should > > generally be better (modulo memory usage, I'm not sure if we have an > > exact comparison). Additionally 64-bit builds are much less likely to > > encounter OOM crashes due to address space fragmentation since they have > > a very large address space compared to the maximum 4GB available to the > > 32-bit builds. > > > > It does seem like we'd need some minimal checking here, obviously first > > for whether the user is running 64-bit Windows, but also possibly > > whether they use 32-bit plugins (until such time as we unsupport NPAPI). > > 32-bit plugins will not work on a 64-bit Windows Firefox (we do not have > > the equivalent of Universal binaries like we do on OS X). > > > > -Ted > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
