Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@ubuntu.com): > Mainly the machines and kernels went 64bit and the userland was stuck in 32bit > because nobody did another entirely new port. And on some architectures > you're > not as register-constrained as on x86 so 64bit userlands might only be bigger > in memory and cache and not more useful.
Right, it's not just that nobody bothered to do the new port, rather there were some detailed papers on how 32-bit userspace performs much better on ppc64, and explain why that is, in contrast to x86-64. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
