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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