On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:38 +0000, Gary Benson wrote: > Anthony Green wrote: > > On x86-64 systems we're building all the java bits as 64-bit. Has > > anybody looked at whether or not this is a good idea (vs 32-bit), or > > is it just done that way by default? > > If x86_64 users want 32-bit code they can just install the i386 rpms. > Or did you mean something else? If I install the x86_64 Fedora Core, Eclipse is a 64-bit application. The only thing we know for sure is that this is bigger than the 32-bit version. Unless there are some compelling advantages perhaps we should consider building all the java code in 32-bit mode (perhaps -m32 -msse2). I'm not sure the ability to address 64-bits of memory is compelling for these apps yet. Are we just consuming more memory for no reason? AG
