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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