Re: [arch-dev-public] Discussion - Increasing our CPU requirements

On 29/3/20 8:52 pm, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

If I see a SIGILL on my AMD Phenom II X6 1090T then Arch will have failed me. 😜

I believe your proposal should only be discussed as co-existing optimized port(s) and even then I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. Performance-critical applications can and frequently are optimized for the running processor (I'm thinking of stuff like glibc and ffmpeg here).

AVX2 was a bold choice, and really a place to get a discussion started. We are currently supporting processors from 2003. We can be better than that. A