mwhudson

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1. 1.▲
   by mwhudson 11mo ago

   Probably not v4 unless AVX512 becomes more ubiquitous than it looks like it will. But yeah, I don't expect this to be the only variant ever.
2. 2.▲
   by mwhudson 11mo ago

   No it's not using hwcaps. That would only allow optimization of code in shared libraries, would be irritating to implement in a way that didn't require touching each package that includes shared libraries and would (depending on d
3. 3.▲
   by mwhudson 11mo ago

   I am probably going to be the one implementing this and I don't know what I am going to do yet! At the very least we need the failure mode to be better (currently you get an OOPS when the init from the initrd dies due to an illegal ins
4. 4.▲
   by mwhudson 11mo ago

   > Could this be used to address the pesky armel vs. armel+hardfloat vs. armhf issue No, because those are different ABIs (and a debian architecture is really an ABI) > the issue of i486 vs. i586 vs. i686 vs. the many varieties of MMX