x32 abi support?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:28:29AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> >So, overall, x32 is only really beneficial for embedded platforms rather
> >than general purpose ones. As Josh says, if there's sufficient interest
> >then it could potentially be implemented as a separate architecture and
> >spend some time in secondary, but I don't know that there'd be a huge
> >benefit to Fedora to spend much time on it.
> 
> x32 makes intel be faster Atom Z2460 [1]

I can't find any x86_64/ia32/x32 benchmarks in that article? Regardless, 
I'd agree that x32 is potentially useful on heavily resource-constrained 
interactive devices like phones. The quesiton is whether it's useful for 
any of the platforms that Fedora targets. Virtualisation is something I 
hadn't considered and it may be that there are benefits there, but I'd 
still appreciate some real figures before encouraging people to spend 
time on it.

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