[csw-maintainers] 32bit vs 64bit

[Ben Walton]

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





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