Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)
John Baldwin <[email protected]>
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On 4/28/23 5:17 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > 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. Are you able to build your daemons with cc -32 with an amd64 world, or do you require an i386 world to build against? -- John Baldwin