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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Qt
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:09:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n8pe0i2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131010125952.GA32470@debian.bordeaux.inria.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:59:52 +0200")

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:05:04PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>> > Also, the build uses
>> > sse/sse2/... instructions according to what is available on the
>> > processor; we might wish to disable all or at least the most advanced
>> > of them in the long run.
>> If it’s a matter of adding the right configure flag, I’d do it before
>> it bites.
>
> The following will leave out any special instructions, as far as I can see:
> +                              "-no-sse2"
> +                              "-no-sse3"
> +                              "-no-ssse3"
> +                              "-no-sse4.1"
> +                              "-no-sse4.2"
> +                              "-no-avx"
> +                              "-no-avx2"
> +                              "-no-neon"
> +                              "-no-mips_dsp"
> +                              "-no-mips_dspr2"))))
>
> 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.)

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 19:05 Qt Andreas Enge
2013-10-08 21:05 ` Qt Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-10 12:59   ` Qt Andreas Enge
2013-10-10 13:09     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-10-10 20:00       ` Qt Andreas Enge
2013-10-10 22:19         ` Qt Mark H Weaver
2013-10-31 15:35           ` Qt Andreas Enge
2013-10-12 13:08         ` Qt Andreas Enge
2013-10-12 19:38           ` Qt Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-12 21:25             ` Qt Andreas Enge
2013-10-12 21:39               ` Qt Andreas Enge
2013-10-13 13:54               ` Qt Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-13 14:18                 ` Qt Andreas Enge
2013-10-13 20:46                   ` Qt Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-11 20:19                     ` Qt Andreas Enge
2013-11-11 20:36                       ` Qt Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-29  8:06                         ` Qt Andreas Enge

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