Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2016 22:59:35 UTC+2 schrieb Tobias B. Besemer: > Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2016 22:00:55 UTC+2 schrieb Nathan Froyd: > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Tobias B. Besemer wrote: > > > Question is: > > > If Mozilla will really "Backout MSVC 2015 from aurora" because 2 people > > > are not able to configure there PCs right in BIOS ??? > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1270664 > > > > Perhaps those people deliberately disabled SSE in their BIOS for > > testing purposes. Which is valuable, because very few Firefox > > developers are testing on non-SSE capable CPUs. > > > > In any event, you misunderstand the cause here. We're not backing out > > MSVC changes just because of these two users. We're backing out MSVC > > changes because other infrastructure (the update server, the > > installer, etc.) isn't yet prepared for the SSE-required world we > > appear to be moving towards. Making those changes deliberately in 49, > > rather than being surprised by it in 48, ensures a better experience > > for everyone (e.g. Firefox doesn't mysteriously start crashing when > > upgrades happen). > > > > -Nathan > > OK, means if there is no switch back to the older compiler, the compiled app > wouldn't run without SSE2?
Sorry! Mean: Compiled with MSVC 2015 Firefox wouldn't run on Windows PC with a Pentium II processor, or older (older then 1999)... ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
