From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N6SBI-0005KG-Kg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:01:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 041F0E09EB; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:00:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE190E09EB for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj4 with SMTP id 4so806264pwj.26 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:00:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8JgAjzQWH5+RUCA1WwP/6T4LPyT325sxgXEKizU3DF0=; b=UrfdmftAtRo+93JsTZaYQs3sGoh+I9Uwi7L1/wUUGwQykfxiWj33zczrXYXIF9aOdp O5zRmDC8nOPA0wU8NINCX/wI9n2p/Zzeb0CvXItV21CrvDEcrZm20n38wqU/Rw364FyG zJpplcH5nXHJWjd5Cu51Dcyi4/6gcPzirZ8Xw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=AOA9emZ/DVaSjolsWC/UYuwmvNnLKCOR7BIC5o0vdxyko/94obQoqITsE9WEN4CZPm S7TTsYBv+kyosiF/aRJgNzbKekADA6vEEy0ED4u2KR8Ek078wXaC7iAQnTNSC81dJ3BD DfaEH60RjqLBpszOwENy+7df9aPo8l5eg4TZY= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.252.2 with SMTP id z2mr6888399wah.156.1257526858414; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:00:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8cd1ed20911060800h4d2f88f8l90efb09c026e1f91@mail.gmail.com> References: <200911011736.38401.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <200911021724.01069.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <20091103191005.18d98e2e@gentoo.org> <4AF1EBD8.4020502@gentoo.org> <20091104214823.64842abd@gentoo.org> <20091105091700.GA17478@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <4AF331B0.4020108@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad0911060618r2b61c4b4w51238306b9c9a437@mail.gmail.com> <8cd1ed20911060800h4d2f88f8l90efb09c026e1f91@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:30:58 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1d3676fbc313d2e8 Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0911060900t2be5345cy756226cdc2c0c862@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations From: Nirbheek Chauhan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 862a338c-579c-43aa-b7a6-7d3398c61731 X-Archives-Hash: 66a4f227113ae4ac0202fbe915e46ab5 On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan >> I think the same should be extended to other languages such as Perl >> and Python (unless they have portions which are C/C++) >> > > You can't really, although Perl has a vm of sorts,=C2=A0 the per-arch dif= ferences > that occur as a side effect of endianness, different floating point/integ= er > math ( 32bit vs 64bit ) , and all those differences impact code. > What kind of modules are affected by such differences? Mostly math-heavy ones? This is something that the herd should be able to judge. --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team