On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 21:44:17 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 20:27:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
4. people wanting high performance are going to be using 64
bits anyway
so i'm not in a set of "people". ok.
It might be a good time to think about your hardware. Btw there
is a recent announcement that Ubuntu and others will drop 32-bit
support quite soon.
http://slashdot.org/story/313313
Here is a copy - the same arguments apply also for performance
features.
Major Linux distributions are in agreement: it's time to stop
developing new versions for 32-bit processors. Simply: it's a
waste of time, both to create the 32-bit port, and to keep
32-bit hardware around to test it on. At the end of June,
Ubuntu developer Dimitri Ledkov chipped into the debate with
this mailing list post, saying bluntly that 32-bit ports are a
waste of resources. "Building i386 images is not 'for free', it
comes at the cost of utilising our build farm, QA and
validation time. Whilst we have scalable build-farms, i386
still requires all packages, autopackage tests, and ISOs to be
revalidated across our infrastructure." His proposal is that
Ubuntu version 18.10 would be 64-bit-only, and if users
desperately need to run 32-bit legacy applications, the'll have
to do so in containers or virtual machines. [...] In a forum
thread, the OpenSUSE Chairman account says 32-bit support
"doubles our testing burden (actually, more so, do you know how
hard it is to find 32-bit hardware these days?). It also
doubles our build load on OBS".
