On Wednesday 14 January 2004 12:04, Alan Cox wrote:
Killing sparc(32) is long overdue. It will not upstage Keith, because he uses Gentoo anyway. And there's always Debian. So, my consciousness is entirely clear on this subject.
Seems its up to those who volunteer to do the work.
I believe that there was some mention on this mailing list or the fedora-test mailing list that sparc64 applications actually run slower than sparc32 applications (although having a sparc64 kernel is a good idea).
This was contrasted with the AMD64 where the 64 bit applications are faster than 32 bit applications (both running on a 64 bit kernel).
The comment was that there were some applications that needed the 64 bit capabilities (for example for addressing) but otherwise, stick with 32 bit.