On 12/07/2013 03:56 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 07.12.2013 19:15, schrieb Felix Miata:
1-Requires more installation space due to need for various 32 bit libs 2-More RAM used per app and by OS
Those two are also important for virtual machines (appliances for example).
3-Lack of various native 64 bit plugins and certain apps 4-Lack of apparent speed benefit in popular apps
64bit is never faster. It just allows to address more memory, but unless you need to address way more than a few GB, it does not bring any benefits.
So yeah, go ahead and drop support for i586. One more way to make openSUSE less useful...
64-bit mode has access to twice the general purpose registers, so it /can/ actually be faster. -Jeff -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org