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Re: amd64 as default architecture



On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 16:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 20, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > No, keep i386 userland only.  Though we might consider reducing even
> > that to a 'partial architecture' that has only libraries (similar to
> > ia32-libs today, only cleaner).
> Don't you believe in x32?

What do you mean, 'believe'?  I'm aware it may allow some applications
to be somewhat more efficient than either i386 or amd64.  I doubt it's
worth adding to the Debian archive, but if we did then I imagine it
would also be as a partial architecture.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All extremists should be taken out and shot.

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