[Bitkeeper-announce] Re: bk-3.2.0 released

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:04:36AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:54:20AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:32:38PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > BitKeeper Users,
> > > 
> > > BK/Pro 3.2.0 has been released and is in the BK download area,
> > > 
> > >     http://bitmover.com/download
> > 
> > Any chance of a native x86-64 version? 
> 
> We don't have any x86-64 machines but we could get one.  I asked about this
> a while back and people told me that there was no point, the x86 one worked
> perfectly.  Can you tell me what having a native one would gain?  If there
> is any gain we'll do it.

Well, yes, of course, the x86 version works just fine, because x86-64 is
backward compatible.

The benefits won't be huge:

	a marginal speed increase due to more registers
	no need for 32-bit libs on the system and in memory
	enough address space for bk, should it ever need more
	a general feeling of doing things right ;)	

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR