On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 6:25 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 11:10:12AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Richard W. M. Jones: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 07:27:05PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > >> Native compilation on 32-bit is a dead end. > > > > > > And I was going to add that this is wrong - 32 bit chroots running on > > > 64 bit hosts work fine and run at full speed. > > > > No, not for everyone, they don't. Some Fedora packages need more than a > > 32-bit address space to build, and that becomes more and more common. > > This is true, but what proportion of packages does this really affect? > Also it's stuff like Firefox that we wouldn't want to compile for 32 bit > anyway. >
It affects three major categories: * Go/Rust (or anything static build+linking) since they need memory to load all sources and object code to compile * Firefox (because of Rust) * Chromium (because it does a unity build with gigabytes of C and C++ source code) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
