The future of i486 arch in Th

Jan Rękorajski baggins at pld-linux.org
Mon Dec 15 21:48:03 CET 2014


On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:

> I'm more interested in the lowest common denominator Intel architecture.
> 
> Specifically:
> 	Can RPM assume sse2 instructions and optimize digests/crypto to use sse2?

No 32bit AMD CPU has this. So, no, you can't do it unconditionally.
We're not going to require SSE2 for i686 arch.

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Jan Rękorajski                    | PLD/Linux
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