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Re:Intel Problems by oblio on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:50PM (#25837063)
It's true that there are extensions to x86, but 99,99% of software out there (the one you'd commonly install on Windows or find in Linux distribution repos) doesn't use those instructions or maybe just detects the features and then uses it.

I don't recall encountering a "Intel-locked" or "AMD-locked" application in more than 20 years of using x86. Ok, maybe ICC, but that one kind of makes sense :-)

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Re:Intel Problems by cozzyd on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:56PM (#25837174)
Encountering SIGILLs is not super uncommon on heterogeneous academic computer clusters (since -march=native).

But yeah, typically binaries built for redistribution use a reasonably crusty minimum architecture. Reminds me of this discussion for Fedora: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]...

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Re:Intel Problems by mitjam on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:35PM (#25839849)
Audio software usually runs better on Imtel than on AMD.
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