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On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:09 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > On 7/16/21 12:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Does it have to be one or the other? Can't you have both? > > Well, you could have runtime detection like certain multimedia codes and > OpenSSL use but > most packages don't do that. this is the "sane" way to do it. unfortunately, the EABIv2, which *explicitly* states, "SIMD is mandatory" is resulting in an inexorable creep of submissions from IBM developers (to libc6 and other libraries) with Quad and 8 1.5+ ghz on the roadmap over the next 3 years, Libre-SOC's processor is *not* intended for just "embedded" uses. we've simply made it abundantly clear that Hell Will Freeze Over before we add a suicidal *700* SIMD instructions to what is supposed to be a RISC design. l.
