> It's not free, it's not easy, and it introduces hard to test and rarely run code paths that may or may not have problems on the target architecture.
If your platform is designed properly it isn't much of an issue. This was bought up at a recent 9front hackathon and the lead dev stated that there is no reason to drop 386 or arm32. In fact, he said they are great test beds for shaking out cross platform bugs and tests all changes on 32 bit before committing.
Also, performance means nothing if the hardware is already there and capable of the job at hand.
If your platform is designed properly it isn't much of an issue. This was bought up at a recent 9front hackathon and the lead dev stated that there is no reason to drop 386 or arm32. In fact, he said they are great test beds for shaking out cross platform bugs and tests all changes on 32 bit before committing.
Also, performance means nothing if the hardware is already there and capable of the job at hand.