32-bit Firefox (Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have towait?)

[Kilz _]

>From: "Tim Schmidt" <timschmidt at gmail.com>
>To: "Kilz _" <kilzzz at hotmail.com>
>CC: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: 32-bit Firefox (Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have 
>towait?)
>Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:06:13 -0400
>
> > >I have an alternative recommendation for you: run 32-bit Ubuntu.  
>Rather
> > >than running half of the desktop 32-bit on an otherwise 64-bit system,
> > >simply install a complete 32-bit system.  All of your complaints 
>vanish.
> > >
> >
> > I refuse, and other 64bit users refuse to use a 32bit version. 
>Suggesting it
> > is a slap in the face.
>
>Ummm...  why?
>
>Speed isn't a valid answer - 64bit binaries can be faster or slower
>depending (64bit math is faster on a 64bit CPU, more registers are
>available in native 64bit mode, but 64bit binaries tear through cache
>twice as fast as 32bit ones do).
>
>Saying you wouldn't run the 32bit version of Ubuntu on principle is
>exactly like saying you'd never run the PPC version of Ubuntu on
>principle.  There's nothing inherently wrong or different about it.
>
>--tim
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There are applicatuions that benefit from 64bit. 3d modeling being one I 
enjoy. Some people like to encode things. Some people bought 64bit systems 
to use them to their potential. If I own a 64bit system as its owner I have 
the freedom to run a 64bit os. The suggestion that 64bit owners run 32bit os 
isnt a fits all solution.
In a perfect world I would run nothing but 64bit applications. But the 
reality that some people refuse to make 64bit applications for everything 
stops me. I also have problems running a 32bit os on my system. Others do 
to. It isnt the perfect solution some people make it out to be.

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