64-bit client VM

David Holmes David.Holmes at oracle.com
Sat Jun 25 04:49:32 PDT 2011


Erik Trimble said the following on 06/25/11 20:48:
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> Also, it might actually simplify Oracle's support in some ways - in 
> particular, if we had a 64-bit client VM for Solaris, we could (and 
> likely would) completely dump the 32-bit JDK/JRE on Solaris.  Once 
> again, that is speculation, but I also can see it happening quite easily.

Given I run Solaris on a x86 system (not x64) I'd be pretty peeved if 
that were to happen. ;-)

David


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