I for killing it off too

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Ian Whyman <[email protected]> wrote:

> As always I am very much pro this.
> On 1 May 2013 07:30, "Fabio Erculiani" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So, x86_64 is more than 10 years old now, and it's time to think again
>> about the i686 architecture.
>> I am proposing to gradually drop support for x86 32bit by the end of
>> 2013 (the "how" would deserve a separate discussion).
>> Is there any serious reason not to kill 32bit? Maintaining it takes
>> 50% of our resources (time and space) and we could just dedicate some
>> of them to the other emerging architecture called ARM.
>>
>> This is just an RFC for now, don't get scared.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Fabio Erculiani
>>
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