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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:01:00
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0911060900t2be5345cy756226cdc2c0c862@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by Kent Fredric
1 On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
3 >> I think the same should be extended to other languages such as Perl
4 >> and Python (unless they have portions which are C/C++)
5 >>
6 >
7 > You can't really, although Perl has a vm of sorts,  the per-arch differences
8 > that occur as a side effect of endianness, different floating point/integer
9 > math ( 32bit vs 64bit ) , and all those differences impact code.
10 >
11
12 What kind of modules are affected by such differences? Mostly
13 math-heavy ones? This is something that the herd should be able to
14 judge.
15
16 --
17 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
18
19 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team