On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 19:29:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Programming world is naturally elitist. There is nothing just
about it. Problem to solve is making more modern h/w available
for interested souls, not reverting to write 32-bit programs.
There's no software solution to hardware problems.
On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 07:04:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Windows. And it would
be nice if we could get to the point where everyone is on
64-bit OSes so that
we can stop worrying about about supporting 32-bit software
outside of
emulators or virtual machines.
Virtualization is a good use case for 32-bit: you can run many
guest oses on one machine and ensure their 32-bit software
doesn't consume lots of memory just because it's 32-bit.
