On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:06:49AM +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Bill Nottingham<notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx) said: > >> I doubt having consistently lower FP precision is anything many users > >> are asking for. The few that do can usually take care of themselves. > > > > And yet you say we should push them all to x86_64, which has > > the same lower precision? > > > >> > - More clearly delineates our support set of targets, sticking true > >> > to forwards innovation, not necessarily legacy support > >> > >> If thats the case why maintain x86 at all? > > > > Because it's 58% of our userbase (source: F11 torrent stats.) > > Do we have any numbers on how many of this systems are x86_64 capable ? If large parts of the world are walking around carrying 6 x CDs from town to town, then we don't even have accurate stats for ix86 either. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
