New x86-64 micro-architecture levels

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Jul 31 13:06:14 GMT 2020


On 7/22/20 5:26 AM, Richard Biener via Libc-alpha wrote:
> So for the bike-shedding I indeed think x86-10{0,1,2,3}
> or x86-{A,B,C,..}, eventually duplicating as x86_64- as
> suggested by Jan is better than x86-2014 or x86-avx2.

Agreed. If we really want to be clear, call it a "level"
or something else that has a direct English meaning
e.g. x86-level-101. This makes it unambiguously clear
that this is some kind of step at which some kind of
features are enabled.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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