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Posted April 17, 2013, 8:30 AM by Stephen Totilo | Filed in Gaming With Video
Game developers have been stuck with DirectX 9 and 2GB of memory for the past decade. While this hasn’t harmed first person shooters (they only have to manage a handful of objects at once), it has been poisonous to other genres. Next time you’re playing an RPG in first person with no party you can refer to DirectX 9 and 2GB of memory as a big reason for that.
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Posted December 26, 2012, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web, Software
Mozilla is backtracking on its decision to kill the 64-bit version of Firefox following heavy backlash from users. Last month, managing engineer Benjamin Smedberg called for coders to cease development of the 64-bit builds, calling them a "constant source of…
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Posted November 22, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Software, The Web
It appears Mozilla has quietly toe-tagged 64-bit builds of its Firefox browser for Windows. In a Google Groups discussion, managing engineer Benjamin Smedberg requested coders halt development on nightly builds of its 64-bit Windows distribution.
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Posted November 1, 2011, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
ARM Holdings has released details of its upcoming ARMv8 architecture at the ARM TechCon conference in Santa Clara, marking the chip maker's first ARM architecture to utilize a 64-bit instruction set.
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