> :> Just like every single Firefox running on OpenBSD/amd64.... > :> > :> On 2011 Sep 07 (Wed) at 23:37:18 +1000 (+1000), Alec Taylor wrote: > :> :Personally I'm using the Nightly builds (version 9). They're great > :> :because they're available in native 64-bit. > :> > : > :tell that to ariane@ *native 64 bit* cough cough. > : > :I bet you are running those on Windoze though. > : > > You are mixing things.
> Native 64-buit builds are where the binary is using the 64bit ABI. > > Ariane was talking about using 64-bits of memory. The JIT can only > access 31-bits of contigous memory. > > Two different things. While 64 bits use the 64 bit ABI, it is almost always sold to the public that they can use much more address space and memory. The public ends up with crashes when the underlying OS allocation algorithms tests that assumption.
