Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)

"Simon J. Gerraty" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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