>> I believe using the non-destructive 3 operand form will help a lot in >> reducing the size of binaries.
> We would have to make a clear decision as to the oldest amd64 > processor we wanted to support. Right now I believe we support all > amd64 processors. Are we ready to give up on old ones? I think the OP was speaking about the AVX and AVX2 instruction set extensions, which were introduced in 2011 and 2013 respectively. There's still a lot of pre-AVX hardware being used (including every single Atom processor), I think it would be way premature to require AVX. I doubt there'd be any significant benefit to be gained from the instructions introduced before AVX/AVX2 (except for crypto, which already uses cpuid detection). I'd love to be proved wrong, though. -- Juliusz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
