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[carewolf]

X11 did no such thing. X11 biggest problem was it ended up a big collection of extensions. Exactly what Wayland is becoming....

[carewolf]

Exactly that is something macOS has copied from X11, the old Session Management extension, which enabled saving the state of applications and restarting...

[carewolf]

Not entirely, because no only are there no good compilers for VLIW, but no compiler for VLIW can ever be written that is as efficient as one for CISC...

[carewolf]

Btw. For KDE4 specfically. The biggest problem was not the changes in Qt. The biggest problem was that the build system was changed at the same time as...

[carewolf]

The example in that blog was using simple things, Qt always strives to make the 90% simple and the rest possible. One big problem with the Qt3 to Qt4...

[carewolf]

Yeah, the last one I had was clementine, and it has had a qt5 version for years, and last time I used the qt4 version was a few years back.
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[carewolf]

The last confirmed version conversion I saw was an xcode being based on LLVM 3.9. There has been two releases since, it is unknown if they are based...

[carewolf]

I think you should have eithrer removed the AMD E-350 or used a logarithmic or squareroot scale, as is it is almost impossible to read the graphs

[carewolf]

On of the interesting things they did with PowerPC recently in gcc (8 I believe), is provide SSE intinsic headers that generate Altivec/VMX instructions...

[carewolf]

Isn't Apple's fork something ancient like 3.x?...

[carewolf]

I was referring to shufp, byte shuffling, which is an essential and extremely versatile operation for integer vector operations, mullop, 32bit integer...

[carewolf]

What are you blathering about?

I specifically wondered why not set the new limit to SSE4 and also raise it for x64....

[carewolf]

The solution is to stop buying Apple products.

And if you were dumb enough to already own one, just stop upgrading macOS at the last version...

[carewolf]

Actually they are way more significant than SSE2. SSSE3 has the all important shuffle instruction and SSE4.1 as integer multiply, it more than 4 doubles...

[carewolf]

Fun. Would kills all currently available games for macOS, cause trouble with Qt based applications, with Chrome, and who knows what else.

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[carewolf]

Btw, why not set the new limit to SSSE3/SSE4 though? That would still cover all CPUs made the last 10 years, and up the x64 minimum at the same time.

[carewolf]

More like i868. i686 was Pentium Pro and Pentium 2. This is K8/P4 tech. so two generations later....

[carewolf]

So people with commit access can compromise a company?

Sounds mostly like a problem for github and few others.

[carewolf]

No, it matters to battery life. At least as soon as you have mouse interface instead of a touch interface. Whenever the mouse moves it needs to do a hittest...

[carewolf]

The problem with HTML and CSS is that it doesn't multithread. Well on top of being slow and retarded for desktop work....