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> Why not? > Yes, this leads to an architectural mess Right there. There's no notable advantage in supporting a very small minority of the applications out t
by manuelabeledo 3y ago
> Why not?
> Yes, this leads to an architectural mess
Right there.
There's no notable advantage in supporting a very small minority of the applications out there, at the cost of keeping units useless for the 99%.
- bear8642 3y ago> There's no notable advantage... Potentially one if a large customer's paying you for it. At work, I'm helping a client upgrade from a decade old version (v12) of our product and having to copy over the switches to keep the even older (v11 and previous) behaviours
- manuelabeledo 3y agoTen years ago was 14 years after the introduction of the x86 64-bit instruction set, and 28 years after x86-32. I’m quite sure we will be OK without support for 16-bit instructions.