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1. Doug Penner Firefox , Michael Ekstrand

   @elehack I think 32 bits/pointer is the leas of !firefox's memory issues...

   about 4 months ago from api at Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
   • Michael Ekstrand Firefox

     I seem to notice 64-bit FF taking noticably more memory than 32-bit; compressed pointers would help with that.

     about 4 months ago
   • zoowar Firefox , Michael Ekstrand

     Come on, a million pointers would only be 4M of additional memory.

     about 4 months ago
   • Michael Ekstrand Firefox , zoowar

     Sun/Oracle's CompressedOops docs indicate that the typical Java heap grows 50% on 64-bit w/o compression. I expect JS would be similar.

     about 4 months ago
   • Michael Ekstrand Firefox , zoowar

     Though this would only improve JS heap usage; wouldn't help page caches, images, other non-JS storage.

     about 4 months ago
   • zoowar Firefox , Michael Ekstrand

     Java and JavaScript are unrelated.

     about 4 months ago
   • Doug Penner Firefox , Michael Ekstrand

     @elehack also, the javascript heap has little to do with total memory when you consider images, etc also using up memory.

     about 4 months ago