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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 29.03.2024, 02:53

> Nowadays many developers want to drop support of CPUs that don't have SSE2
> instructions, and they are basically using those new instruction set
> extensions as a tool to bully people who have an "old" computer that still
> has more than enough computing power for their use.
SSE2 is already ubiquitous. It's anything older than x64 v3 (AVX) that people are struggling with now. I don't get it, personally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_levels

> They are reasoning it
> by saying that the new instruction set extensions make the program run
> faster, when the reality is that every new version of the program is always
> more bloated than the previous one. This culture is especially visible
> amongst the Rust gang and the developers of many graphical desktop
> libraries in the FOSS world.
Intel does fund a lot of developers, and Windows, Linux, Mac are all pretty snobbish in jumping on trends and throwing a lot of things away.

Having said that, with all the malware / ransomware in the world, I think a lot of concerns for older hardware and software are related to security.

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