On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 12:06 AM Paul Dufresne via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/23/20 11:26 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:22 PM Paul Dufresne via devel > > <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > It's completely toast on Linux for the same reason FatELF was: nobody liked it. > > ... > > I think this is different than FatELF. The idea of FatELF, is that it > contains the generated code for more than one CPU (as I understand it). > This means that some of the FatELF you don't need because it is not for > your CPU. But I propose to not distribute any code for your CPU, only > high-level assembler (LLVM code). Optimizing the high-level assembler on > your own computer, you get the optimizations for your CPU, where more > normal methods have to choose base common characteristics of the CPU family. > Your right that the technical reasoning for why nobody liked it is different. But people don't like what LLVM does either (and personally, I think clang is still not a great compiler), so we don't use it that way. Though I suspect it shows up more often in graphics stuff that way already. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
