jdk7u-osx, VM mode

[Paul Hohensee]

I believe Mike means the current Oracle plan to ship a just 64-bit
port, and not a 32-bit one.

The short answer is that we (Oracle) don't have the QA resources to
test both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, certainly not for the 7u4 developer
release.  At most, we could have engineers make sure the 32-bit
version basically works, but that would be no substitute for the
extensive testing that Oracle QA does.

That said, we _could_ ship universal binaries including both 32-bit
and 64-bit, but we couldn't support the 32-bit version.

Paul

On 12/7/11 11:47 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> On 12/7/11 5:45 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:10 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/7/11 2:21 AM, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is hotspot now 64bit only on all platforms?
>>> No. See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/config-417990.html for
>>> a list of Oracle JRE 7 and JDK 7 Certified System Configurations.
>> While I'd be among the first to support dropping 32-bit support for a variety of reasons, could you share the reasoning behind the decision with the community?
> I'm not sure I follow - which decision?
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
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