Re: Please upgrade your machines to sparc64

To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, alexmcwhirter@triadic.us
Cc: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de, cusbrar1@gmail.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, debian-sparc@lists.debian.org, sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please upgrade your machines to sparc64
From: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:38:07 +0200
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On 06/23/2016 10:38 PM, David Miller wrote:

From: alexmcwhirter@triadic.us
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:12:35 -0400

1. Oracle knows sparc32 is faster than sparc64, that's why nearly half
of Solaris is 32 bit.

+1


Note that Solaris is providing more and more 64-bit binaries. Solaris
libraries are always provided as 32 and 64-bit to ensure backward
compatibility. But new Solaris binaries are usually 64-bit only.

alex.

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