Option 2 please On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 at 09:55, Trisha Biswas <tbis...@fastly.com> wrote:
> We do have use cases where we run BIRD in low memory environments with a > lot of routes in the kernel, so moving everything to 64-bits could > potentially hurt these scenarios. Option #3 would be very confusing, so > we'd have to vote for keeping things as is. > > Thanks, > Trisha > -- > > *Trisha Biswas* | Sr. Software Engineer, Network Systems > fastly.com | @fastly <https://twitter.com/fastly> | LinkedIn > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/fastly> > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 5:04 AM Mathew Heard <m...@mheard.com> wrote: > >> Is there even any userbase running bird on embedded hardware (that might >> be adversely affected)? >> >> Dn42 comes to mind. Perhaps? But realistically we aren't talking about >> much of an increase surely? >> >> Other than that I like 64bit only. >> >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022, 10:20 pm Douglas Fischer, <fischerdoug...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I need to agree with Toke! >>> "having Bird behave differently on different archs is bound to be >>> incredibly confusing..." >>> >>> And, on the other hand, what would be the downside of having everything >>> in 64? >>> Using a little more memory than might be the minimum usable? >>> >>> This kind of care I see being taken for applications that run platforms >>> with serious memory limitations. >>> I don't see that this is BIRD's niche. >>> >>> >>> In a real scenario of high demand using BIRD, how much memory would be >>> "wasted"? >>> In these real high demand scenarios, who uses 32bit these days? >>> >>> I would worry more about CPU cycles. >>> >>> Em sáb., 26 de mar. de 2022 às 19:19, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen < >>> t...@toke.dk> escreveu: >>> >>>> Maria Matejka <maria.mate...@nic.cz> writes: >>>> >>>> > Is there anybody who would try to convince me that I shouldn't make >>>> > filter integers and route attribute integers both 64 bits wide? >>>> >>>> I think switching everything to 64-bits sounds quite sensible. Whatever >>>> you do, please don't go with option 3, though, having Bird behave >>>> differently on different archs is bound to be incredibly confusing... :) >>>> >>>> -Toke >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Douglas Fernando Fischer >>> Engº de Controle e Automação >>> >>
