Building juju-core on Windows

[Mark Ramm]

On Wed 13 Mar 2013 10:09:31 AM EST, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:58 AM, John Arbash Meinel
> <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> Well the tools I got from golang.org were 64-bit binaries. And I know
>> in the past go's support for 32-bit was pretty poor. (The memory
>> allocator has a hard time freeing memory that isn't referenced because
>> the pointer values aren't as unique.)
>>
>> Certainly I would say we don't need >2GB of memory for Juju, but the
>> general go tool support seems better for 64-bit.
>
> The original problem was blown slightly out of proportion, but even
> then tip carries a precise GC these days, so 32-bit is no problem.
>
>
> gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
>

Sounds to me like we can use 32 bit for now and push 64 bit onto the 
backlog.

--Mark