On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:59:42 -0600 "Chris Caudle" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Tue, December 26, 2017 2:34 pm, Will Godfrey wrote: >> It seems everyone is dropping support for 32 bit machines these days - > >64 bit x86 based processors were first released over 12 years ago. I >don't think you have been able to buy a 32 bit only x86 processor for over >5 years now, so the numbers of 32 bit only machines is dwindling. > >> It makes me wonder how long it will be before single core machines go the >> same way. > >That depends on what you mean. You have not been able to purchase a new >single core processor in quite a few years. As far as I am aware there >are no distributions which build without SMP support, but an SMP capable >kernel can run on a single core, so the situation with core count is not >quite the same as the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit builds. > OK, I wasn't thinking things through clearly. Presumably if a program did want to spread itself between cores it would have to first ask how many there were, and if it was 1, then that settled it! -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
