On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:

> My understanding is that the new
> MP4 demuxer that's written in Rust is currently only being built in
> the x86_64 case, so, AFAICT (I'd love to be wrong!), Rust code in
> 32-bit Firefox isn't a solved problem yet.

We're actually building it for 32-bit MacOS X too, but all x86 macs have SSE2.

> As for the consequences of requiring SSE2 unconditionally, I'm
> personally more worried about a conflict with Linux distros that don't
> already require SSE2

Do you know if rust's unwind will catch illegal instructions? The mp4
demuxer code currently runs in an isolation thead so panics don't
affect the firefox process. So I'm wondering if we could enable this
for linux32 with telemetry to get a measurement outside crash reports.

 -r
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