On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Patrick McManus <pmcma...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > I’m not sure how to compare the size of the populations impacted by the > crash vs the size of the population impacted by the SSE dependency. My > intuition says the no-SSE population is very small and we might be better > off overall with MSVC-2015 on the 48 channel.. We’re going to orphan that > population eventually anyhow but perhaps we want to live with the crashes > while we prep the infrastructure to deal with it as nathan mentions in a > different thread. I'm really torn. > At this point, I don't think we should change "back" to requiring SSE2 for FF48. The update work would have to be uplifted to 47 which is already at last-beta, and the install work has not landed. I don't know whether there is a way to switch to MSVC2015 without requiring SSE2. I know people were looking into compiler workarounds for a while: I don't know what the status of that is. --BDS _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
