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If you have no 32 bit processes on the system, then 32-bit shared libraries don't have to be loaded (saving RAM), can be omitted from the system entirely (savin
by millstone 10y ago
If you have no 32 bit processes on the system, then 32-bit shared libraries don't have to be loaded (saving RAM), can be omitted from the system entirely (saving disk space), and don't have to enter into the test matrix (saving engineering time). I suspect it's as simple as those optimizations.
- ProAm 10y agoWith hardware SO cheap, and the amount of RAM or disk space these take up it would be self destructive for Apple to ostracize so many customers over something that is literally dirt cheap to accommodate.
- sroussey 10y agoNo, the 32bit libs will cause havoc with the CPU cache. Good to drop them.
- ProAm 10y agoYeah sure burn more customer goodwill after the last batch of MacBook Pro's... Apple is in customer maintenance mode, Tim Cook especially, technically this might make sense ,just be prepared for customer backlash at a time when Apple really doesnt need anymore of that.
- johncolanduoni 10y agoTell that to everyone who has trouble finding enough free space to do an iOS upgrade.
- milesrout 10y agoYep, it really is that simple. It reduces an entire category of issues. This is also why some people entirely disable multilib in their Gentoo systems.
- majewsky 10y agoAlso on Arch Linux, you typically only activate the multilib repo if you need one of the applications in it (which includes most notably, Wine and Steam, and a bunch of emulators).