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I'm guessing they finally did it now because ARMv8 hardware is coming, and they wanted to have Chrome for Android with 64-bit support for the improvement in per
by higherpurpose 12y ago
I'm guessing they finally did it now because ARMv8 hardware is coming, and they wanted to have Chrome for Android with 64-bit support for the improvement in performance and crash rate. So they decided they might as well do it for all operating systems now.
- justinschuh 12y agoThere were numerous factors, but that wasn't one of them. The biggest delays were things like the build toolchain and logistics. For example, Microsoft's toolchain couldn't even build a working, optimized, 64-bit Chrome binary until sometime last year.