From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Qt Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:00:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20131010200038.GA16170@debian> References: <20131008190520.GA31264@debian> <87mwmjxym7.fsf@gnu.org> <20131010125952.GA32470@debian.bordeaux.inria.fr> <874n8pe0i2.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUMPi-0007tp-UG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:00:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUMPc-0007f3-95 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:00:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874n8pe0i2.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Andreas Enge skribis: > > I do not know how much this slows down qt applications. According to wikipedia, > > sse2 arrived in 2001. So one could argue that adding it would exclude almost > > no machines. > Yes, you may be right for SSE2 (especially considering the fact that > this kind of software is typically used on fairly recent machines.) Finally, I disabled everything special. As this is not a number crunching library, I would like to be convinced of the usefulness of SSE. Andreas