Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell@gmail.com) said:
I doubt having consistently lower FP precision is anything many users are asking for. The few that do can usually take care of themselves.
And yet you say we should push them all to x86_64, which has the same lower precision?
- More clearly delineates our support set of targets, sticking true
to forwards innovation, not necessarily legacy support
If thats the case why maintain x86 at all?
Because it's 58% of our userbase (source: F11 torrent stats.)
Take your answer and now apply it to why fedora should maintain support for x86 CPUs without SSE2.
Because that's significantly less of our userbase. I'd love to have harder numbers, but we're still talking about a set of CPUs that (outside of corner cases like the Geode and C3) ceased production anywhere from 4 (Athlon) to 6 (P3) to 10 (P2) years ago.
Bill