Posted by gouessej on Jan 09, 2020; 1:53pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Poll-Intel-32bit-i686-builds-linux-and-or-windows-tp4040230p4040253.html

sailsman63 wrote

I've been trying to get a response from our user community, just to gauge things. Not much so far. The one thing that I have seen happen in the past is that some windows users end up with 32-bit jre even though they have 64 bit windows.

(Usually due to having a 32bit build of their browser of choice. Java.com probes your browser for a recommended default download)

You shouldn't rely on the JRE installed on the system anyway.

Personally, I'm in favor of dropping 32-bit support if and only if we ensure that we don't require any fancy CPU instruction on 64-bit. Hardware supporting 32-bit CPU is becoming very difficult to repair, even my oldest computers with 64-bit CPU are difficult to repair because of the lack of spare parts. Anyway, maybe it's too early to do it.