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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:45:01 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Proposed roadmap to 1.0

* Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> [2013-06-30 01:34:09 -0400]:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:20:45PM -0700, Isaac wrote:
> > m32r is live, but I'm not aware of much interest.
> > tilera and epiphany (the Parallela coprocessor) sound interesting,
> 
> Not familiar with them, but my guess would be they're interesting. In
> embedded, everything has niche uses. On the high-end server side, on
> the other hand, anything but x86_64 (for straight power) or ARM (for
> cutting the primary cost of a data center: electricity) is madness. In
> other words, I think there's a lot more value in supporting diversity
> on the embedded side than on the enterprise side.

i assume for servers x32 (small address space, but many registers)
and aarch64 (low power) can be still relevant

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