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Re:Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang by karavelov on Sunday December 16, 2018 @11:59AM (#18693859)
AMD Bulldozer and later arch supports AVX, what Ryzen adds is AVX2 instructions.
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Re:Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang by nkurz on Sunday December 16, 2018 @01:05PM (#18694204)
You're right, and this is a little confusing. The article says he's using a "AMD Opteron 6272", which seems like it should support AVX: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-Opteron%206272%2.... So maybe the GCC bug he encountered is actually because he lacks AVX2 support? Or an incompatibility between early AMD and Intel support for AVX?
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