From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs using SSE2 on x86 Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2020 22:19:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83pn9bt7f1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874kqn5cpx.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26275"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sven Joachim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 04 21:19:42 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jrnhN-0006lj-TV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 21:19:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43514 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrnhM-0004yR-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 15:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrngu-0004Zf-CW for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 15:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrngt-0003Rv-EG; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 15:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2466 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jrngs-0002cJ-V1; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 15:19:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874kqn5cpx.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (message from Sven Joachim on Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:58:34 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252678 Archived-At: > From: Sven Joachim > Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:58:34 +0200 > Cc: Emacs Development > > The Debian i386 port still uses older machines without SSE2 as its > baseline, and apparently there are some people who still use Pentium III > or Athlon XP machines, even for web browsing[1]. > > Whether you want to support them is up to you, but in general Emacs runs > very well even on such old hardware. Maybe we should step back a notch and remind ourselves why do we want to make this change. What exactly are we going to gain, and are these gains important enough for us to have to deal with all the issues it will raise (some of which were already mentioned in this discussion)?