In a discussion on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-6128,
we are talking about which instruction sets (available on newer x86-64
processors) we want to require.
At this point, I'm not sure how strong the motivation is for requiring
certain instruction sets, but it may be worth some
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