Am Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 06:49:24AM -0800 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > @tillea Confirmed by my testing is that the difference between failing and > passing autopkgtest of `r-cran-xts` is whether `r-base-core` is from Debian > unstable or from the same sources recompiled with `-ffloat-store`. > > `-ffloat-store` would cost some performance for FPU code in R on i386, but > given that it's 2023 this should not matter much since i386 is mainline > vintage hardware (multiarch usecases shouldn't apply here).
I fully agree that users could live with performance issues on i386 since those who need performance will not use i386. > I would guess this change might also help with similar issues in other > packages, but that is just a guess. I'd agree with reassigning this to r-base.