27 Dec
2017
27 Dec
'17
2:14 a.m.
On December 26, 2017 10:34:26 AM HST, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk>
wrote:
It seems everyone is dropping support for 32 bit
machines these days -
including
a number of Linux distros.
It makes me wonder how long it will be before single core machines go
the same
way. Has anyone seen any hint of that yet?
I think it was LAC 2008 where I first heard discussion on how to plan
for
multi-core kit - not that I was touching any code back then :)
Well, in response to both 32-bit and multicore topics...my wife's old netbook
(don't recall exactly how old, but at least 7 years old) came with a 64-bit, dual-core
processor. While its hardware is limited to 2GB RAM, it is running 64-bit Ubuntu.
Even the processor called a "Pentium" in a cheap little-use desktop I have is
64-bit 2 cores.
Even the old, cheap entry-level tablet I'm using has a 64-bit 4-core chip in it. (Not
to ignore the 64 GPU cores the Tegra chip also includes.)
Single core CPUs went away a long time ago.
Just to put it in perspective.
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