From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264798AbUE2NUK (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 09:20:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264836AbUE2NUK (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 09:20:10 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:28036 "EHLO midnight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264798AbUE2NT7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 09:19:59 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 15:20:18 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Larry McVoy , bitkeeper-announce@work.bitmover.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bk-3.2.0 released Message-ID: <20040529132018.GA6221@ucw.cz> References: <20040518233238.GC28206@work.bitmover.com> <20040529095419.GB1269@ucw.cz> <20040529130436.GA20605@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040529130436.GA20605@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:04:36AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:54:20AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:32:38PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > BitKeeper Users, > > > > > > BK/Pro 3.2.0 has been released and is in the BK download area, > > > > > > http://bitmover.com/download > > > > Any chance of a native x86-64 version? > > We don't have any x86-64 machines but we could get one. I asked about this > a while back and people told me that there was no point, the x86 one worked > perfectly. Can you tell me what having a native one would gain? If there > is any gain we'll do it. Well, yes, of course, the x86 version works just fine, because x86-64 is backward compatible. The benefits won't be huge: a marginal speed increase due to more registers no need for 32-bit libs on the system and in memory enough address space for bk, should it ever need more a general feeling of doing things right ;) -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR