1.5 moving to 64 bit only

[Stephen Holt]

To clarify, there are some fairly big wins that dropping 32bit support will afford us (ARC, especially). And they completely justify dropping support for out ~2.3% i386 users.  But I do not believe that this will benefit us for 1.5.

Save it for 1.6.

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Steve

On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Adrian Godoroja wrote:

> Ok,
> 
> what are the downsides of moving now?
> 
> Adrian.
> 
> On Jul 27, 2011, at 01:55 , Stephen Holt wrote:
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>> Disagreed for 1.5. 
>> 
>> This brings us no benefit for 1.5's current codebase which I'd prefer we start shaping up for release.
>> 
>> Suggest postponing this for 1.6
>> 
>> --
>> Steve
>> 
>> Typed with thumbs
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>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Adrian Godoroja <robotive at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> as we all know, some time ago we agreed that 1.5 will be 10.6+ only.
>>> 
>>> We wanted to let everybody know, that 1.5hg is moving to 64 bit only builds, of course if most of us agree with this.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Adrian.
>>> 
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