On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 08:48:45PM -0400, Ben Kelly wrote: > On Jul 19, 2017 6:20 PM, "Mike Hommey" <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > > > What would be the rationale behind this choice? > > Smaller memory footprint, which, you'll admit, when you're on a machine > with (less than) 2GB RAM, makes a difference. > > > I thought we had data that showed OOM (small) due to VM fragmentation still > outweighed OOM (large) on these machines. If that is the case 64-bit is > strictly better.
I don't believe you can exhaust the address space and have VM fragmentation be an actual problem when you have less than 2GB RAM. Of if you do, everything is slow to a crawl before that happens. Also, that tells nothing about people that never hit OOM (a lot of people even close their browser well before that could happen). Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
