Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx) said: > It's for this reason (and the multilib memory bloat) that I was really > disappointed to see x32 created. > > 32bit of an addressable space is a real limitation on modern machines— > and completely reasonable software which is linear in input size is > simply less useful on 32 bit machines. > > If it ever comes up that Fedora wants to further limit the usability > of the i686 with older machines (e.g. by adding a SSE2 requirement), > then perhaps it would be instead better to replace i686 with x32... > but otherwise I think it would be really unfortunate to end up > subjecting fedora users to the 32bit vm limits who otherwise might not > be. Plus, there's the minor "incompatible with every single existing piece of i686/x86_32 software that exists in the wild." While Fedora isn't directly targeting the existence of third-party or local software, a new 32-bit option that breaks it all isn't the most polite. It's why it would be much more useful for something like spinning up a new embedded target rather than switching an existing userbase. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
