Hi people, i've my opinion about the future SPARCv9 (64 bit): awful! IMHO,
* Before: Development of SunCC was 10% time vs 90% time in the development of GCC/binutils toolchain of SPARC for GNU/Linux. * After: Development of SunCC was 98% time vs 2% time in the development of GCC/binutils toolchain of SPARC for GNU/Linux. Why? IMHO, there are many reasons: * commercial marketing, opportunities of businesses, etc. * Sun wants Sparc64 for running JAVA applications. * The strategic weapon of Sun is the WORA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere ) of its polemical trademarked Java. Days ago, Sun's chief said that Sun won't support more servers in the future according to the IBM's comments. Our good solution, not the best, is to use x86-64 and/or ppc64 gcc/binutils toolchains. The 64 bit x86-64/ppc64 multi-PCs clusters ala Gentoo are good as 64 bit SPARC superservers. Good bye ;)
