[Python-Dev] Re: [Patches] PC\config.[hc] changes for Win64

[Tim Peters]

[Neil Hodgson]
>    Maybe someone has made noise about this before I joined the
> discussion, but I see the absence of a mixed mode being a big
> problem for users. ...

Intel doesn't -- they're not positioning Itanium for the consumer market.
They're going after the high-performance server market with this, and most
signs are that MS is too.

> ...
> It doesn't offer that much for most applications.

Bingo.

plenty-of-time-to-panic-later-if-end-users-ever-care-ly y'rs  - tim