On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:10 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * > > | I wondered if one could build a pure 64 bit distribution for sparc64 in > | the very same way as the pure64 amd64 build was done ? > | Maybe I should ask the sparc list too. > > You could, but in the general case, you don't want to do that. > Sparc64 is slower than sparc32, so the only cases where you actually > want 64 bit support is in the kernel and glibc (so you can run 64 bit > apps) and in special applications such as Postgres. What's the point, then, of SPARC64? Don't say "more memory", because that can be dealt with. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world." seen on the net
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