On Oct 21, 2010, at 14:06, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote: > Also, I am not entirely a "normal" user. I am a programmer who is > currently stuck in Java hell. Formerly I was a C++ developer. I do > need to run a 64-bit JVM very occasionally because we sometimes deal > with huge datasets. This implies that I simply run a 64-bit JVM all > the time. I don't necessarily need to do this on my own laptop, but, > I do like being able to do it.
But again none of that necessitates using a 64-bit kernel. > Also, I think that 32-bit environments > are on their way out apart from embedded applications. I really > wonder wether Lion will even support running on 32-bit hardware any > longer? IMHO it's a little early for them to be dropping OS support for any Intel Mac, the first line of which were 32-bit only. But I have no idea what their plans are. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
