[Debian-ppc64-devel] I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

[Wartan Hachaturow]

On Tuesday, October 5, 2010, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you are using double precision floating point, the speed of a
> program compiled 32bit on a 64bit machine is much much slower (maybe
> 1/10). The 64bit kernel supports 64bit operation Only if the program
> is compile 64 bit ! Moreover with any app there are library calls.

I don't see how this is the reason for /bin/ls being compiled in 64-bit.

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Regards, Wartan.