[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 223987] Hard dependency on SSE2 instruction set for i386 platform (32-bit Intel / x86)

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223987

Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           See Also|                            |https://bugs.webkit.org/sho
                   |                            |w_bug.cgi?id=196488

--- Comment #1 from Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> ---
Looks like this was intentionally made mandatory in bug #196488.

My $0.02: nowadays almost all Linux distros that build i686 packages do so only to support i686 multilib/multiarch on x86_64 processors. The biggest distro that still targets i686 is Debian and Debian does not want SSE2 in its i686 builds. Therefore, we should not require SSE2 on i686 even if that means WebKit will be slower.

But based on how little attention this bug has received in the past four years, I guess very few people care about this hardware anymore.

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