Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

"[...] The earlier 'SIMD' instruction sets on the x86 platform, from oldest to newest, are 'MMX', '3DNow!' (developed by AMD), 'SSE' and 'SSE2'. [...]" Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE3 (At the top.) Is support for 'MMX' & '3DNow!' already dropped? -BesTo

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On 2016-05-18 10:10, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> What do we need to do to reach a decision that it's indeed OK to treat >> *run-time* selection of SSE2 vs. non-SSE2 especially in Rust code as a >> "patches not even welcome"

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On 2016-05-18 10:10, Henri Sivonen wrote: What do we need to do to reach a decision that it's indeed OK to treat *run-time* selection of SSE2 vs. non-SSE2 especially in Rust code as a "patches not even welcome" kind of thing, considering that this may lead to Linux distros shipping an 32-bit x86

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Emanuel Hoogeveen < emanuel.hoogev...@gmail.com> wrote: > They do get the baseline compiler, which can still be significantly faster > than the interpreter, but Ion requires SSE2. Since the runtime detection > does just turn Ion off altogether, I don't know if we

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Emanuel Hoogeveen wrote: > > They do get the baseline compiler, which can still be significantly faster > than the interpreter, but Ion requires SSE2. Since the runtime detection does > just turn Ion off altogether, I don't know if

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 7:32:38 PM UTC+2, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > - Our own JITs and their support for non-SSE2 paths > - Our primary JIT doesn't support non-SSE2, right? So these users > already fall back to the slow interpretation path? They do get the baseline

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 20:28:01 UTC+2 schrieb Tobias B. Besemer: > > If we're going to accidentally keep introducing bugs where non-SSE2 CPUs > > crash, it would be far better to add a runtime check at the beginning of > > main() and error out, than to have a steady trickle of bug reports about

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Ralph Giles wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Now, with my Debian hat on, I can tell you with 100% certainty that > > angry Debian users *will* come with patches and will return even > >

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

> If we're going to accidentally keep introducing bugs where non-SSE2 CPUs > crash, it would be far better to add a runtime check at the beginning of > main() and error out, than to have a steady trickle of bug reports about > crashes on illegal instructions which end up being marked INVALID.

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:10:30AM +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> So we now require SSE2 on [...] >> * 32-bit x86 Mac, which means just the plugin-container now that we >> no longer support 10.6, which was the last OS X version that ran on >> 32-bit hardware. Actually, all of Apple's intel

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > It seems that we are almost ready to require SSE2 for Mozilla-built > > Firefox for 32-bit x86 Linux. > There are a couple of interrelated issues here. Can we require SSE2 for Mozilla builds of

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

I think we need to admit that there isn't any rational, analytical way to compare most of the costs here. The one number we *do* have, the number of users who can't upgrade, is kind of tantalizing us, but we can't quantify how many users we'll gain by requiring SSE2, how many other bugs we'll fix

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 16:52:25 UTC+2 schrieb Boris Zbarsky: > On 5/18/16 7:38 AM, Tobias B. Besemer wrote: > > Is this really a discussion if Firefox should support CPUs older then 13-15 > > years ??? > > More or less, yes. > > > I can't imagine any scenario were a user needs to run a

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On 5/18/16 7:38 AM, Tobias B. Besemer wrote: Is this really a discussion if Firefox should support CPUs older then 13-15 years ??? More or less, yes. I can't imagine any scenario were a user needs to run a Pentium III with GUI and a browser on it... There were AMD CPUs newer than that

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 13:56:14 UTC+2 schrieb Tobias B. Besemer: > Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 13:38:58 UTC+2 schrieb Tobias B. Besemer: > > N00b question: > > Is this really a discussion if Firefox should support CPUs older then 13-15 > > years ??? > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2 >

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 13:38:58 UTC+2 schrieb Tobias B. Besemer: > N00b question: > Is this really a discussion if Firefox should support CPUs older then 13-15 > years ??? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2 > > I can't imagine any scenario were a user needs to run a Pentium III with GUI

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

N00b question: Is this really a discussion if Firefox should support CPUs older then 13-15 years ??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2 I can't imagine any scenario were a user needs to run a Pentium III with GUI and a browser on it... ...would mean that the system not only runs not e.g. as a

Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:10:30AM +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Benjamin Smedberg > wrote: > > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> For clarification: Does this decision apply to 32-bit x86 Linux

Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs (was: Re: Reverting to VS2013 on central and aurora)

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> For clarification: Does this decision apply to 32-bit x86 Linux as >> well? (It would be sad to have to supply and maintain non-SSE2