Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries. Jeanette Winterson
One of the things, none of the distributions have ever done right is application packaging [...] making binaries for linux desktop applications is a major fucking pain in the ass. Linus Torvalds
Conceptually, there is no difference between the two visual categories, and improvements in telescopes can shift previously double stars into visual binaries, as happened with Polaris in 2006. Source: Internet
Apple initially encouraged developers to produce universal binaries with support for both PowerPC and x86. citation There is a performance penalty when PowerPC binaries run on Intel Macs through Rosetta. Source: Internet
An interesting case for visual binaries occurs when one or both components are located above or below the Main-Sequence. Source: Internet
As of version 4, the GCC also includes auto-vectorization capabilities that attempt to intelligently create VMX/Altivec accelerated binaries without the need for the programmer to use intrinsics directly. Source: Internet