Re: Bug#857172: Please enable SSE2 on amd64 and disable altivec on PPC ports
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 04:28:52PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> For the powerpc port, if G3 are still supposed to be supported, altivec
> should be disabled as they are not supporting it IIRC (longtime I didn't use
> a ppc machine).
Would it make much sense to run something like GIMP on a G3? I'd
expect the performance to be rather underwhelming. Same applies to
mplayer and Firefox.
Even a G4 is rather underpowered for something like GIMP. But at
least, it would take advantage from Altivec.
> If you are telling me altivec is OK, I guess that the flag can be removed
> and the situation can be kept as before for PPC
Let's put it this way: I wouldn't disable it until someone actually
complains :). So, please let's just keep it the way it is.
Adrian
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