Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2016 22:00:55 UTC+2 schrieb Nathan Froyd: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Tobias B. Besemer wrote: > > Question is: > > If Mozilla will really "Backout MSVC 2015 from aurora" because 2 people are > > not able to configure there PCs right in BIOS ??? > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1270664 > > Perhaps those people deliberately disabled SSE in their BIOS for > testing purposes. Which is valuable, because very few Firefox > developers are testing on non-SSE capable CPUs. > > In any event, you misunderstand the cause here. We're not backing out > MSVC changes just because of these two users. We're backing out MSVC > changes because other infrastructure (the update server, the > installer, etc.) isn't yet prepared for the SSE-required world we > appear to be moving towards. Making those changes deliberately in 49, > rather than being surprised by it in 48, ensures a better experience > for everyone (e.g. Firefox doesn't mysteriously start crashing when > upgrades happen). > > -Nathan
OK, means if there is no switch back to the older compiler, the compiled app wouldn't run without SSE2? _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
