[rescue] Solaris Studio

[Meelis Roos]

> Every single third-party packaging site says "We build 32-bit because
> most of the time it doesn't matter, and 64-bit binaries MAY be sligltly
> slower than 32-bit even on 64-bit hardware..."

I did some test on 32-bit vs 64-bit userland on 64-bit kernel, with 
sparclinux. The results varied by test, by about 10-20% - sometimes one 
was faster, sometimes another. No clear winner.

> Look, I don't care if a task runs 2%-3% slower.  But I *REALLY* care if
> something as simple as a file copy craps out in the middle of a 4GB file
> because it can't handle a file offset larger than 2GB.  If raw speed
> were the only criterion we could all run 8-bit Atari emulators.

Is that really a problem in Solaris? I saw LFS (Large File Summit?) 
implemented 10-15 years ago, providing 64-bit file offsets and all the 
related API on 32-bit systems, in both Linux and Solaris. See 
_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE defines.

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Meelis Roos (mroos at linux.ee)