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> 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 (v1

> 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 ago
Ten 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.