[Development] Updating x86 SIMD support in Qt

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 24 January 2022 05:30:46 PST Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
> I have absolutely no problem with stuff running faster and more
> efficient on my two laptops (which are significantly more modern), but I
> would have a major problem with it not running at all on my workstation
> that I use for 95% of all my Open Source work. And I would also not like
> my applications to crash on my downstream user's computers (which are on
> average just as old as mine) - every crash means hours of work for
> someone (usually me) to find out what the problem was.

At least i can promise you not to make it a silent crash. Either QtCore or the 
dynamic linker would say it can't run on that machine.

https://code.woboq.org/qt6/qtbase/src/corelib/global/
qsimd.cpp.html#_Z16qDumpCPUFeaturesv

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