-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:35:55 +0200 Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> wrote:
On Friday 28 of August 2015 10:15:03 Per Jessen wrote:
Michal Kubecek wrote:
And that's the point: most of those still running i586 distributions do run them on 64-bit capable hardware - because they believe
(a) they don't need x86_64 unless they have >4GB of memory (b) it consumes less memory (c) it consumes less disk space
It's not about belief, I can easily prove (b) to you. I don't care about (a) and (c).
OK, I'm pretty sure does consume _less_ memory. However, I seriously doubt you can prove to me the difference is (except for artificially crafted examples) big enough to outweigh the drawbacks of i586.
Michal Kubeček
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