On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:28:29AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > [...] > >So, overall, x32 is only really beneficial for embedded platforms rather > >than general purpose ones. As Josh says, if there's sufficient interest > >then it could potentially be implemented as a separate architecture and > >spend some time in secondary, but I don't know that there'd be a huge > >benefit to Fedora to spend much time on it. > > x32 makes intel be faster Atom Z2460 [1] I can't find any x86_64/ia32/x32 benchmarks in that article? Regardless, I'd agree that x32 is potentially useful on heavily resource-constrained interactive devices like phones. The quesiton is whether it's useful for any of the platforms that Fedora targets. Virtualisation is something I hadn't considered and it may be that there are benefits there, but I'd still appreciate some real figures before encouraging people to spend time on it. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
