On 29/3/20 8:52 pm, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > If I see a SIGILL on my AMD Phenom II X6 1090T then Arch will have failed me. > š > > I believe your proposal should only be discussed as co-existing > optimized port(s) and even then I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. > Performance-critical applications can and frequently are optimized for > the running processor (I'm thinking of stuff like glibc and ffmpeg > here).
AVX2 was a bold choice, and really a place to get a discussion started. We are currently supporting processors from 2003. We can be better than that. A
