On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:36 +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Am Montag, 17. März 2008 10:11:15 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
My opinion on this, why to desupport something which might be still used, also we all know that x86_64 is the future and therefore i don't think the benefit is worth the trouble.
In addition to this MMX would not really boost anything. SSE would be much superior. And further more: You would only notice such improvements on heavy multimedia encoding stuff and such things you would not do on an 10 years old computer.
I believe though, that this was Simo's point. We don't have many users on 10+ year old hardware, so many of our users are doing multimedia stuff and would benefit from MMX. Before making any such change I'd take a poll on the ML, BBS, Flyspray ticket, and put a post on the frontpage pointing to all 3 asking for input on what kind of hardware people use with Arch. More than 1 PPro casualty might be too many (i.e. next -Syu "bricks" their box). Dale