Philippe Michel <[email protected]> writes: > Debian's choice of building with SSE2 support seems reasonable for > amd64. For 32 bits architectures, I don't know at which point SSE2 > instructions are guaranteed to be available (are they in i686 ?), but if > they build without SIMD instructions to support older CPUs the cost for > users doing rollouts or thorough analyses will be significant.
Yeah, the i386 binaries are probably pretty slow. Use of i386 is relatively rare at this point, though (and is quasi-unsupported by the Linux kernel), so I've not been investing much effort in it and just going with a simple compatible build. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
