From: Jim Gifford <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:33:26 -0700
> David S. Miller wrote:
>
> >You can make SILO 64-bit, but it would just be a lot
> >of work and would just result in a SILO that, unlike
> >current SILO, would only work on UltraSPARC machines.
> >
> >There really is no advantage, and known disadvantages, to
> >making SILO 64-bit.
> >
>
> If I have a system that is a Pure64 environment, I try to compile Silo,
> it will not function. Since there is no support for 32 bit, how would I
> be able to use it.
You'll need some minimal 32-bit libraries sitting around in order
to build it, sorry.
For performance reasons alone I would _never_ condone a purely
64-bit userland. It's simply a total lose from a performance
perspective, unlike some other platforms such as amd64 which
eradicate most of the 64-bit performance loss due to the gain
in available cpu registers compared to 32-bit x86.
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