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.
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gene