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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:17:32 -0700
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        'freebsd-arch' <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)
Message-ID:  <82207.1682727452@kaos.jnpr.net>
In-Reply-To: <aaa3e005-5f72-f422-56b1-932842379e15@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <aaa3e005-5f72-f422-56b1-932842379e15@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> A larger question is what to do about 32-bit platforms moving forward.

FWIW while we do not use i386 kernels anymore
compat32 support is very important.

Some of our daemons are very pointer heavy and up to a certain scale
point, a 32bit app is more memory efficient, of course the 64bit version
can scale much bigger but many customers do not need that.

--sjg



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