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The x32 system call ABI

The x32 system call ABI

Posted Sep 8, 2011 21:19 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940)
In reply to: The x32 system call ABI by gmaxwell
Parent article: The x32 system call ABI

It's using almost 4 GiB on a 64-bit system now? But of course your browser would supposedly need significantly less memory when running in x32 mode? And once Firefox also uses out-of-process rendering (like Chrome/Chromium), that would become even less of an issue...?


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