>> Agree - lots of situations where 32-bit is preferable, and in many >> cases still the defacto arch. > > It's getting harder and harder to find 32 bit x86 hardware. There's exactly > one use case for 32 bit in the cloud setting (IMO), which dgilmore and I > briefly spoke about after the meeting yesterday - extremely memory > constrained environments. The python memory consumption issues on 64 bit fall > into that category. Does anyone have other use cases that aren't support for > older hardware or memory usage with smaller amounts of mem? >
I'm not 100% certain but I believe hadoop algorithms are fairly optimised for 32 bit due to historical architectural reasons so that might be another use case. Peter _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
