On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 07:32:29PM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hi, > > > It has suddenly hit me, that there's no apparent reason to run most > executables as 64 bits on a x86_64 machine. I mean, what for? It's not > like I expect Firefox to address 1 GB of RAM. If it does, let it crash. > On the other hand, plugins and other binaries for 64 bits is a headache. > Flash player tops the list, I suppose. > > > So it really makes me wonder: Why are the preinstalled binaries on a 64 > bit machine, well, 64 bit executables? I run a 64 bit machine because I > want the *overall* RAM to exceed 4 GB, but except for virtual machines, > I don't expect any application to have problems with the 32 bit > limitation.
Another thing I forgot: Try building Firefox (with debug information and such). IIRC you'll need more than 4GB of memory space. And this is far from being the only program. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
