Since there are many variants of architectures, some are supported and others could be supported in the future, it becomes a little annoying for end-users to browse the configurable options and enable specific options to get maximum speed for corresponding algorithms so here --enable-fat comes in handy. I like the idea of making --enable-fat default to get over the case that the user didn't notice it or unaware of its advantages and disadvantages and therefore hesitant to choose it, so I think it's a good time to enable fat option by default if things are stable in assembly side, you got my vote.
regards, Mamone
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 6:13 PM Niels Möller nisse@lysator.liu.se wrote:
nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
Hi, I wonder if it would make sense to try to cut a release pretty soon (and without any arm64 changes)? Previous release was made end of April, and there's been quite a few improvements since then.
I've pushed a couple of changes to increase version numbers, and add to the NEWS file.
One question: Is this a good time to make --enable-fat the default? It's been available for a couple of versions, I think using it is quite common, and I've not heard about any problems (except build failures if assembler doesn't recognize newish instructions, which at least isn't subtle).
Regards, /Niels
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