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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2005-08-06 10:02:32
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> > Correct. SSE1 is now a minimum requirement. Supporting non-SSE > > variants is too much hassle > > uhm, what is the problem? It means everywhere where the host machine's sse state is messed with, we now have to have a conditional branch around that code. To be fair, this is fewer places with 3.0 than with 2.4.X. It is certainly possible, just extra clutter and more code paths/ variants to verify. > > and everybody, more or less, has at least a Pentium-III or equivalent > > CPU anyway. > > that's quite a statement. it may be even true - in the western world and > possibly even globally in the professional sw devel world. Fair enough. Let's wait to see if this causes many complaints in practice. J |