On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:15:50 -0500 Andrew Wiley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I run 64 bit Windows 7, where around 70% of my applications are 32 > bit, and 64 bit Arch Linux, where multilib lets me install the 32 bit > version of most applications. If you go through the Linux kernel > archives, you'll find that running 32 bit applications on a 64 bit > kernel is actually fairly popular because 64 bit applications need > ~20% more memory due to increased pointer sizes. I'm aware of multlib in Linux distros considering I spent more than 5yrs on Gentoo mostly running x86_64 as well as >3yrs running x86_64 Archlinux. However, multilib was used for stuff like Wine, Skype, flash plugin, acroread...iow proprietary stuff for which vendor does not provide 64 bit version, but I've never encountered the need to use multilib for any compiler/programming language (Scheme, Lisp, Erlang, OCaml, Haskell). Please, name one which does not have 64bit version? So, I believe it's quite a moot point in regard to compiler for programming language. Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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