Re: [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

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Rafa Grimán wrote:

For x86 based models, I guess we'll have to switch for the time being to another distro, which IMHO isn't too much of an issue. Sooner or later we'll have to switch over to x86-64 based systems since x86 is used on old hardware: hard to get replacements, doesn't scale, less performance, ...


x86_64 is just x86 with more registers with 64 bit address space instead of 32 bit. Architecturally there is not much difference so all the shortcomings of x86 still exist on x86_64. Unfortunately.




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