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Where's the 64-bit plugin?

Where's the 64-bit plugin?

Posted Aug 30, 2006 15:25 UTC (Wed) by ernstp (subscriber, #13694)
In reply to: Where's the 64-bit plugin? (ZDNet) by alspnost
Parent article: Interview with Mike Melanson, lead engineer on the Linux Flash Player team (ZDNet)

If you read their blogs they mention it a couple of time, and that they're working on it!
The problem is that Flash deals with bytecode and that part of the engine seems to be a bit more complicated to port to a 64-bit architecture.
Note that there's no Flash plugin for 64-bit Windows either.


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