I'm not sure I would ever has said that a Pentium 4 has decent performance.
If you are still relying on chips from earlier than 2005 to do any serious work you should consider an upgrade (save power and better performance from even an i3) or virtualising the workload onto one hypervisor. On 1 May 2013 10:44, Danilo Pianini <danilo.pian...@gmail.com> wrote: > Still using it on several systems: three servers and a Minimac (I'm > using it for building a smart pervasive screen). > Don't forget that many systems still exist with decent performance and > no amd64 support, Pentium 4 for instance. > > Moreover, I can see many users still download the x86 version (I'm > seeding the torrents). It's not dead at all. > > I would wait a few years. In my opinion x86 is still worth the > resources we are dedicating to it. > > 2013/5/1 Vojtěch Pszczólka <v.pszczo...@sh.cvut.cz>: >> Despite of i'm not developing Sabayon, i can't see any reason for >> maintaining i386. How looks typical i386 user :-D ? >> >> Wolfden <wolf...@gmail.com>napsal/a: >> >>>I for killing it off too >>> >>> >>>On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Ian Whyman <v00...@v00d00.net> wrote: >>> >>>> As always I am very much pro this. >>>> On 1 May 2013 07:30, "Fabio Erculiani" <lx...@sabayon.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> So, x86_64 is more than 10 years old now, and it's time to think again >>>>> about the i686 architecture. >>>>> I am proposing to gradually drop support for x86 32bit by the end of >>>>> 2013 (the "how" would deserve a separate discussion). >>>>> Is there any serious reason not to kill 32bit? Maintaining it takes >>>>> 50% of our resources (time and space) and we could just dedicate some >>>>> of them to the other emerging architecture called ARM. >>>>> >>>>> This is just an RFC for now, don't get scared. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> -- >>>>> Fabio Erculiani >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>KJS >>>~wolfden~ >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini > > Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ > Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 > Skype: dany.sk > -- Ian Whyman v00d00.net
