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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
>> 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