Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

2022-04-15 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
On 15.04.22 04:50, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote: Is there in deed any reason to prefer amd64 over i586 if you have the choice and a machine with 2GB RAM or less, apart from perhaps long term support? Twice the registers and sse instructio

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

2022-04-15 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
On 14.04.22 15:45, Levis Yarema wrote: Is there in deed any reason to prefer amd64 over i586 if you have the choice and a machine with 2GB RAM or less, apart from perhaps long term support? Depends on the application. Encryption and decryption requiring the simulation of very larger integers

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

2022-04-15 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 04:52:55PM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > ... > exist. It truely is this g++ bug that prevents Firefox and any > Qt programs from building under Buster/i586. I have noted that > there are also some amd64 targets on the OBS that expose the > exact same g++ bug. My questio