SomeJava; much is in C++. [LWN.net]

SomeJava; much is in C++.

Posted Aug 30, 2005 19:13 UTC (Tue) by hazelsct (guest, #3659)
In reply to: SomeJava; much is in C++. by dwheeler
Parent article: The second OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta

A 32-bit office suite is just fine on a 64-bit system...

This is a preposterous statement: on the original 64-bit platform (alpha) and IA-64, this is not, has never been, and will never be true. Please don't generalize like this. OOo is not portable, and its claims to the contrary are problematic for everyone who uses 64-bit platforms -- except for AMD64 (and possibly Sparc64 and PPC64).

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SomeJava; much is in C++.

Posted Aug 31, 2005 9:19 UTC (Wed) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link]

Certainly on Linux/Sparc64 and Solaris/Sparc64, most userland applications are 32-bit; thus, on Sun's own 64 bit architecture, 32-bit is fine. This also applies to IRIX/MIPS, Linux/MIPS and Linux/PPC64, regardless of kernel wordsize.