Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)
"Simon J. Gerraty" <[email protected]>
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John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > A larger question is what to do about 32-bit platforms moving forward. FWIW while we do not use i386 kernels anymore compat32 support is very important. Some of our daemons are very pointer heavy and up to a certain scale point, a 32bit app is more memory efficient, of course the 64bit version can scale much bigger but many customers do not need that. --sjg