[LAU] Bye Bye 32 bit

[Will Godfrey]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:59:42 -0600
"Chris Caudle" <chris at chriscaudle.org> wrote:

>On Tue, December 26, 2017 2:34 pm, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> It seems everyone is dropping support for 32 bit machines these days -  
>
>64 bit x86 based processors were first released over 12 years ago.  I
>don't think you have been able to buy a 32 bit only x86 processor for over
>5 years now, so the numbers of 32 bit only machines is dwindling.
>
>> It makes me wonder how long it will be before single core machines go the
>> same way.  
>
>That depends on what you mean.  You have not been able to purchase a new
>single core processor in quite a few years.  As far as I am aware there
>are no distributions which build without SMP support, but an SMP capable
>kernel can run on a single core, so the situation with core count is not
>quite the same as the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit builds.
>

OK, I wasn't thinking things through clearly.
Presumably if a program did want to spread itself between cores it would have
to first ask how many there were, and if it was 1, then that settled it!

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