Re: [arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-24 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:24:32 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > ...IMO we could assume that > FreeBSD users are a similar target group as Arch users. If so, then it > could cause a lot of pain for Arch users and maintainers, too. > > Regards, > Ralf I wouldn't assume that.

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:03:52 +0200, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: >You cannot seriously say "optimised for modern processors" and "i686" >in the same sentence. FWIW https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-September/273691.html ;) I'm a x86_64 user, so I don't care about it

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-19 Thread Sebastiaan Lokhorst via arch-general
2016-09-19 12:22 GMT+02:00 Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-pub...@archlinux.org>: > > I'm not really sure why we want to even invest time in making all i686 > packages use more features. Most of our users run x86_64 already so maybe > we > should think about increasing feature support