That's not exactly true. It appeared in 2001 on Intel CPUs, but most AMD i686 CPUs were not SSE2- capable.
E.g., my old PC was powered by an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ ~2.00 GHz and it not supported SSE2 instruction set. So, SFE and SFE-encumbered repository was not usable on my machine. Now i have an Intel Sandy Bridge...so, that problem for me no more exists. But, as Jim Klimov said, OI could be used also on older machines (as home server or as desktop, with fluxbox or other wm/de). So, have a not fully functional compiler is a huge problem.* In my experience, Illumos and OI didn't require SSE2. In fact, i used without any problem all packages from openindiana.org repository. * Actually, the very main problem of sfe repository is not the compiler, but the sfe gmp library, which was compiled with native machine flags. Best regards, Luca De Pandis In data domenica 27 gennaio 2013 10:19:10, Bob Friesenhahn ha scritto: > SSE2 appeared with the Pentium 4 in 2001. It is not likely that OI > users will be encountering CPUs which don't support SSE2. Besides > that, in Illumos-list discussions I have heard mention that the > Illumos kernel requires SSE2. > > Bob _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
