[analog-help] Re: Ann: 6.0.3 Release

[Dimitri Maziuk]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 18:54:46 Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> Perhaps some Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard developer here (anyone here
> seeded?) could chime in on whether Dimitri's presumptions about
> doubled RAM or disk usage apply or not?

Objection Your Honor! According to OED, presumption is "taking upon oneself of 
more than is warranted by one's ability, position, right, etc.; forward or 
overconfident conduct or opinion; arrogance, effrontery, pride".

I may be an arrogant bastard, but I have used Solaris on 64-bit SPARCs since 
the beginning of the century and I'm just repeating the argument I hear from 
Solaris people every time I ask "why TF not compile /bin/sh as 64-bit 
application, so it doesn't crash with 'Argument list too long' every time you 
try to use a '*' on directory with lots of files".

Of course, memory is cheap and most people don't bother: x86_64 Fedora comes 
with 32- and 64-bit builds of everything including firefox, and 64-bit is the 
one that gets installed by default.

Anyway, my original question was "exactly what useful information do you 
expect to find in 64-bit browser report?"

Dima
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Dimitri Maziuk
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BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu