From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:17:31 +0000 Subject: Re: Post 1.2 development Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, David Miller wrote: > 1. What can we expect in the way of a time frame for a peek at > 64-bit userland? Are we talking about 1-2 months, 6 months or a > year? This is a really critical piece of information for ISVs > contemplating porting to UltraPenguin. > > I believe I told you in private email a few weeks ago that we are > currently shooting for some time near mid-summer. But as usual, no > promises. > > That being said, I believe people who are porting applications which > have no real need for 64-bits are making a mistake by making a 64-bit > sparc version of their application. This is simply because if they > make a 32-bit version then the whole sparc line of systems can run > that application. > > The 64-bit userland will be slightly slower for most applications, and > this is just a fact of life not anything to do with how our > implementation will work (pointers and types are bigger, thus the > memory references of the application, even for common tasks, will be > larger). Then, will we be able to support more than 2^16 users per machine, i.e. 2^32? Pau