Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)

From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg_at_juniper.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:17:32 UTC
John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> A larger question is what to do about 32-bit platforms moving forward.

FWIW while we do not use i386 kernels anymore
compat32 support is very important.

Some of our daemons are very pointer heavy and up to a certain scale
point, a 32bit app is more memory efficient, of course the 64bit version
can scale much bigger but many customers do not need that.

--sjg