Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Specific Processor Optimizations on x86 Architecture

[Charles Cazabon]

Joseph D. Wagner <theman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So what?  Some other kernel developer -- like a module/driver developer, a 
> real-time systems developer, a simulations developer, or just some guy 
> messing around (read: student) -- might really want or even need those 
> specific optimizations.

And they can.

> Isn't this whole free-as-in-freedom software thing about giving developers 
> and end-users options they wouldn't otherwise have under closed source 
> alternatives?  In that spirit, shouldn't developers have the option of 
> optimizing for those specific processors?

They do have that option.  If they itch, they'll scratch it.

Charles
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