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Re:Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD by plorkyeran on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:00PM (#39443687)
Dropping 32-bit macOS apps let them drop the second copy of every system library, and possibly even more importantly, support for the old obj-c runtime that was weird and different from the runtime used on every other platform. Supporting 32-bit wine is a much smaller burden.
Re:Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD by MBCook on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:02PM (#39444522)
Which is especially useful on phones that are much more memory constrained than desktops.