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There's something terrifying about a web browser needing more than four gigabytes of memory.


x86-64 programs run faster regardless of how much memory they use because they get access to more registers. There’s also the issue that loading a 32-bit application when everything else running is 64-bit requires loading 32-bit versions of all the libraries it uses, so ideally at some distang point in the future, all applications will be 64-bit.


Clearly if Chrome had needed the memory, this would have been implemented long ago.




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