2016-09-19 12:22 GMT+02:00 Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@archlinux.org>:
I'm not really sure why we want to even invest time in making all i686 packages use more features. Most of our users run x86_64 already so maybe we should think about increasing feature support there since that will have a bigger impact.
This is an excellent point. Be it i686, i686+SSE2, i786, or whatever, they are all legacy platforms. You cannot seriously say "optimised for modern processors" and "i686" in the same sentence. I don't see how there is much gain from optimising them, especially since most users are using x86_64 anyway. In my opinion, we should keep i686 as it is, as a legacy platform, until it is used so little that we drop it completely. Anyone who is concerned about performance has moved to x86_64 a long time ago. Sebastiaan