On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 07:38:09PM +0200, Ike Devolder wrote: > > > > If we limit our choice based on your CPU, then we need to limit based on > > the other CPU mentioned in this thread. > > > > That should not be a consideration at all. What we need to do is think > > about what make our distribution worthy of being a distribution. > > Original the selling points were rolling release, vanilla packages and > > optimised binaries. We have lost the latter. Do we want to get it back? > > > > Allan > > Yes we want it back. I also have systems without SSE4 and if Arch is no > longer usable on those I'll use distributions for 'older' hardware on > those. > > But for our day-to-day workhorses I would love optimized binaries. > > -- > Ike
Someone mentioned AVX2, but it seems there is still a patch needed for glibc. Solus added it very recently https://dev.solus-project.com/T503 and they have taken it from Clear Linux. -- Ike
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