Excerpts from Joerg.Schilling's message of Wed Jul 20 04:33:51 -0400 2011: > Most applications on sparc do not get a benefit from 64 bit as sparc > is an orthogonal CPU and you have to pay for 64 bit with bigger > code.
True, but providing the option (especially for libraries) makes sense, I think. > Sooner or later all applications that have to deal with times will > have to be converted to 64 bit only and many of them are still not > well written for the future. So by building them 64-bit now and getting some field testing , bugs can be found and fixed. That seems like a good thing to me. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
