On Tuesday 23 October 2007 18:04:40 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:13:16PM +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Laurent Rineau wrote: > > > > > We prefer 32bit on those platforms. > > > > > > > > What if I have a x86_64 platform and nevertheless want only a 64-bits > > > > kernel and almost all 32-bits apps? > > > > > > Given the architecture constraints, why do you want that? Is this a > > > real use case that should be given serious consideration? > > > > 32-bit code for most platforms is smaller *and* uses less memory > > (pointers at least being half the size). There is often a speed > > penalty too. > > But we're not talking about "most platforms". We're talking about x86_64. i386 applications use less memory that x86_64 ones. I would prefere to run under x86_64 only for applications that needs more that 2Go of memory. -- Laurent Rineau http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
