Am Montag, 17. März 2008 schrieb Roman Kyrylych: > 2008/3/17, Simo Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Let's start off by saying that this is just me floating an idea out > > there, it's not so serious (yet...). > > > > I've been toying around with the idea of starting to build our > > packages with --march=pentium2 instead of i686. This would mean that our > > binaries would make use of the MMX instruction set, and that our > > packages would no longer run on PentiumPro or older processors. > > > > My logic here is that we are comitted to being a bleeding edge distro, > > so I think it very much fits our philosophy to phase out older > > processor families when they are hardly used anymore. Intel hasn't > > manufactured PentiumPro's since roughly 1998. The number of users > > running Arch on 10-year-old boxes must be something very close to zero, > > so I don't think we'd be disappointing anyone. Also making use of the > > MMX instruction set would give our multimedia apps a boost, and might > > make some other software inperceptibly snappier (gogo placebo effect!). > > > > What do you guys think? > > And how do you plan to name that arch then? Still i686, pentium2 or x86_32? > Having support for MMX on 32-bit architecture is nice, but shifting > from i686 to pentium2 cold be not easy to archieve (especially if > -arch suffix will be changed) and benefits aren't that big IMO.
My opinion on this, why to desupport something which might be still used, also we all know that x86_64 is the future and therefore i don't think the benefit is worth the trouble. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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