On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 02:42:47AM +0200, Stefan Brüns wrote:
On Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2022 01:32:20 CEST Felix Miata wrote:
Stefan Brüns composed on 2022-10-09 00:42 (UTC+0200):
99% of users have bought sufficient hardware during the last 10 years.
Where did that number come from?
From common sense. Actually, during the last 10 years you could not buy anything new which is not x86_64-v2.
False. The HP microserves that do not qualify as v2 people mentioned here were intorduced 2012 and discontinued 2015, and during that time (and some after) you could buy them new. At least get the facts straight. Sure, if you knew that people will arbitrarily decide to not support hardware without SSE 4.2 you could easily get pre-owned hardware that qalifies probably even 15 years ago. But you would not know back then, sse4.2 is just one of dozens of obscure CPU features that only specialized software used - until now. And you could not know that there won't be sse4.3 and sse4.4, either. Thanks Michal