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> Again, it seems that for LMDB is again "solving" the problem by ignoring it. Which is OK if it fits your use case... But shouldn't Firefox work properly on 32
by mykmelez 8y ago
> Again, it seems that for LMDB is again "solving" the problem by ignoring it. Which is OK if it fits your use case... But shouldn't Firefox work properly on 32-bit systems? Or did they completely decide that they don't want to target any 32-bit platform anymore?
Yes and no, respectively. Yes, Firefox should work properly on 32-bit systems; and no, we didn't completely decide that we don't want to target 32-bit platforms anymore.
Rather, Firefox plans to use LMDB where it fits one of its many use cases for persistent storage (and not use it where it doesn't).
The StackOverflow thread you referenced describes a blockchain program that expects to use "a few GB of lmdb diskspace." Whereas Firefox's use cases for LMDB are sized in the range of a few KiB to a few MiB. Firefox has no plans to start storing a blockchain.
Claimer: I'm the engineer integrating LMDB into Firefox.