On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Jim Gifford wrote:
David Miller constantly gets on his soapbox about this on the Sparc Realm of linux.
I don't disagree per se -- I've given up on pure64 for desktop builds for the moment -- but to be fair x86 has a lot more to gain running standard apps in 64-bit mode; sparc has a similar instructions set between 32-bit and 64-bit modes, but x86 does not.
Zach
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