Telemetry reports 99.77% with SSE2…

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> On Jan 29, 2016, at 15:33 , Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> I also want to highlight the thing at the end of the gist linked above
> - the majority of the non-SSE2 population are on 43.0.4. That is,
> they're keeping up-to-date, and would likely be affected by this more
> than somebody stranded on an old version.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Chris H-C <chut...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> tl;dr - Around 99.5% of Firefox Desktop clients on release channel
>> represented by (a 20% sample of) pings submitted by on January 21, 2016 had
>> "hasSSE2" detected.
>> 
>> Here's the analysis and results on github. Please feel free to check my
>> work: https://gist.github.com/chutten/4959c873d7fbbec0785a
>> 
>> Keep in mind we cannot prove a negative from this. I cannot state that
>> those pings without hasSSE2 correspond to clients that don't have SSE2
>> support on their machines. So I tried (and failed, see bottom section of
>> that gist) to keep analysis and discussion centred on the "hasSSE"
>> population alone.
>> 
>> :chutten
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Mike Hoye <mh...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2016-01-29 2:05 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 1/29/16 9:43 AM, Ashley Gullen wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> FWIW, the Steam Hardware Survey says 99.99% of users have SSE2 (under
>>>>> "other settings"): http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> For that to be valid, one must assume that the population of Firefox
>>>> users and Steam users are sufficiently similar. I don't think that's
>>>> necessarily true since most Steam titles have substantially higher system
>>>> requirements.
>>>> 
>>> While that's a fair point, Microsoft turned compiling with SSE2 on by
>>> default in Visual Studio in 2012, and it's been basically impossible to buy
>>> an x86 CPU without it since...  2004 or so?
>>> 
>>> I've tapped chutten about this, and he says:
>>> 
>>> 14:33 < chutten> Easy as pie. ping["environment/system/cpu/extensions"]
>>> contains "SSE2"
>>> 14:33 < chutten> or, rather, the inverse
>>> 
>>> ... which he then explained to me means "we can get our own data in short
>>> order."
>>> 
>>> He says it'll be straightforward to pull in, so he's going to do that.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - mhoye
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