On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1].
Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit as well as 64-bit userland. Otherwise many programs will pay a substantial performance penalty, as pointer-heavy programs double their memory and I/O requirements (and Sparc doesn't get any compensating benefit the way x86-64 does from extra registers in 64-bit mode). The GNU toolchain has extensive support for multilibs, and other Linux distros can have 32-bit as well as 64-bit packages installed, but Debian has traditionally forced people to use chroot to run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit OS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
