Re: new software if moving to amd64?

On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 07:59:17AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 10/04/2014 07:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> Lennart,
> >The best option will actually end up being x32 (which is 32bit
> >programs using the 64bit cpu so you get all the new registers and
> >SSE floating point, but without the pointer overhead). Not sure
> >how far along x32 is at this point.
> Interesting.  So that would be another flavour of package again?
> (not 'i386' not 'amd64', but something else?)

The flavour is x32.  It is not done yet though.

https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port

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Len Sorensen