[haiku] Re: New alpha?

  • From: Jaroslav Šmíd <dataman64bit@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:52:58 +0100

I always come into stubborn people, keeping saying its all about ammount of physical memory.


On 02/19/2011 12:03 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 01:37 +0100, Jaroslav Šmíd wrote:
I feel sad... I feel very sad that you continue to make x86-32 version
in times when every desktop CPU out there is x86-64. ... Almost crying
... Would be much better if x86-32 version was discontinued and work
started on x86-64 version only (preferably with no way to run x86-32
apps so that the move is faster).

Well, that would stop a huge segment of the Haiku userbase from using
Haiku.  I would drop Haiku instantly if it was 64-bit only.  I'm not
going out and buying a new laptop just because you want to faff about
with 64-bit stuff.

Haiku runs really well on older systems - why would you want to shut
those users off?

64-bit is a pointless waste of time, unless you *need* more than 4G of
RAM.  In which case, you're probably running some horking great database
server which suggests something that's *not* Haiku ;-)

We don't need to cripple Haiku with slow, claggy, bloated 64-bit builds.
It's nice and quick the way it is.  Keep it that way.

Gordon MM0YEQ



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