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Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows
An anonymous reader writes "Firefox has gotten so large that it cannot be compiled with PGO on a 32-bit linker anymore, due to the virtual memory limitation of 3 GB. This problem had happened last year with 2 GB, which was worked around by adding a/3GB switch to the Windows build servers. Now the problem is back, and things aren't quite that simple anymore."
This only affects the inbound branch, but from the looks of it new code is no longer being accepted until they can trim things from the build to make it work again. The long term solution is to build the 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system.
You mean some people still run a 32-bit OS?
I think it speaks volumes about the bloat of VS2005 more than about the bloat of FF.
Every end has half a stick.
So the codebase is once more becoming bloated, in fact so bloated that they cant compile it in 3 gigabytes of address space, and their long term solution is to compile it in an enrivonment that allows more address space??? Instead of, maybe, getting the code base down to a non bloaty non total total disaster area?? Looks like this is one more confirmation that Mozilla have lost the plot with Firefox.