On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Philip Chee <philip.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/06/2014 22:32, jmor...@mozilla.com wrote:
>
> > We have a good understanding of the work required. The development
> > work, as you might suspect, is largely done. We still produce 64 bit
> > builds. The notable areas remaining are:
>
> > - completing test coverage
> > - working on plugin/add-on compatibility
> > - writing/updating the installer
> > - automating/augmenting/reallocating QA resources to support the
> additional QA
> > needs on an ongoing basis, and
> > - some open product questions around how we roll it out, how we
> announce and
> > promote it, etc.
>
> What it the status of our JIT code regarding 64 bit builds? ISTR that
> the quality of our JIT code on 64 bits was one of the reasons for not
> releasing official builds on those platforms.
>

We've been releasing 64 bit builds for Linux and OS X for years now.
Looking at arewefastyet.com, you can see that, depending on the exact
benchmark, we're either slightly faster or slightly slower on 32 bit than
on 64 bit. I don't see a reason why this should be different on Windows.
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