So LPCNet requires AVX, AVX2, or NEON, but in most Distro's those
instruction sets can not be assumed. There's still hardware being produced
that don't have any of those.

For instance, in Fedora x86_64, we only assume up to SSE2 because assuming
anything higher would prevent install on some processors still in
production (and may more still in use).

Between all the architectures on Fedora (x86_64, i686, armv7hl, aarch64,
ppc64le, and s390x) there is only one baseline that meets the requirements
of LCPNet:

aarch64 because NEON is "baked in".

There are ways to detect the available instruction sets during runtime:

https://github.com/google/cpu_features

But I know I don't have the knowledge how to implement this dynamically (at
run time instead of build time).

There's also a problem we've briefly discussed before, should we keep the
name LPCNet for our library? From a packaging perspective it's an issue
because someone may want to package the canonical LPCNet:

https://github.com/mozilla/LPCNet

And two packages can't have the same name for obvious reasons...

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Richard
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