== Quote from Jonathan M Davis ([email protected])'s article > Linux distros _definitely_ prefer to have native binaries, and those that try > and > be 64-bit pure _can't_ use 32-bit binaries unless those binaries are > completely > statically linked - though multilib is still the most common scenario for > 64-bit > versions of most Linux distros.
Out of curiosity, what's the advantage of this purity, other than a fairly inconsequential amount of disk space and bandwidth savings? 32-bit can even be _more_ efficient for certain things because pointers are only 4 bytes instead of 8.
