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by kzrdude 1139 days ago
It looks like the code generator is only available for x86 anyway, so it seems niche that way. I am all about baseline being good performance, not the special case.
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BenjiWiebe 1139 days ago
He mentions he wants to make the same type of optimization for ARM, so ARM+x86 certainly wouldn't be niche.

I wouldn't even call x86 alone niche...

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kzrdude 1137 days ago
With eyes on portability, any single-arch-specific code is niche
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