I also want to highlight the thing at the end of the gist linked above - the majority of the non-SSE2 population are on 43.0.4. That is, they're keeping up-to-date, and would likely be affected by this more than somebody stranded on an old version.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Chris H-C <chut...@mozilla.com> wrote: > tl;dr - Around 99.5% of Firefox Desktop clients on release channel > represented by (a 20% sample of) pings submitted by on January 21, 2016 had > "hasSSE2" detected. > > Here's the analysis and results on github. Please feel free to check my > work: https://gist.github.com/chutten/4959c873d7fbbec0785a > > Keep in mind we cannot prove a negative from this. I cannot state that > those pings without hasSSE2 correspond to clients that don't have SSE2 > support on their machines. So I tried (and failed, see bottom section of > that gist) to keep analysis and discussion centred on the "hasSSE" > population alone. > > :chutten > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Mike Hoye <mh...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> On 2016-01-29 2:05 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: >> >>> On 1/29/16 9:43 AM, Ashley Gullen wrote: >>> >>>> FWIW, the Steam Hardware Survey says 99.99% of users have SSE2 (under >>>> "other settings"): http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey >>>> >>> >>> For that to be valid, one must assume that the population of Firefox >>> users and Steam users are sufficiently similar. I don't think that's >>> necessarily true since most Steam titles have substantially higher system >>> requirements. >>> >> While that's a fair point, Microsoft turned compiling with SSE2 on by >> default in Visual Studio in 2012, and it's been basically impossible to buy >> an x86 CPU without it since... 2004 or so? >> >> I've tapped chutten about this, and he says: >> >> 14:33 < chutten> Easy as pie. ping["environment/system/cpu/extensions"] >> contains "SSE2" >> 14:33 < chutten> or, rather, the inverse >> >> ... which he then explained to me means "we can get our own data in short >> order." >> >> He says it'll be straightforward to pull in, so he's going to do that. >> >> >> - mhoye >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
