> "JLT" == Jason L Tibbitts writes:
JLT> And, let's see, I'd have to toss out five desktops (which isn't too
JLT> bad, I guess)
I was wrong. It would be 36 desktops. Being charitable requires me to
assume this was proposed without adequate consideration of just how much
hardware is involve
> "BC" == Ben Cotton writes:
BC> * Other developers: Other developers may have to adjust test suites
BC> which expect exact floating point results, and correct linking with
BC> libatomic. They will also have to upgrade their x86-64
BC> machines to something that can execute AVX2 instructions.
On 22/07/2019 19:51, Ben Cotton wrote:
After preliminary discussions with CPU vendors, we propose AVX2 as the
new baseline. AVX2 support was introduced into CPUs from 2013 to
2015. See
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#CPUs_with_AVX2
CPUs with AVX2].
Going all the way
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/x86-64_micro-architecture_update
== Summary ==
Fedora currently uses the original K8 micro-architecture (without
3DNow! and other AMD-specific parts) as the baseline for its
x86_64 architecture. This baseline dates back to 2003
and has not been updated since
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