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eschwartz · 09-27-2015, 01:30 AM

And technically speaking, those computers can run calibre too, if built against against a copy of Qt5 that was compiled without SSE2 support. Okay, performance might drop.

But... old computer...

For that matter, my distro (ArchLinux) builds Qt5 without SSE2 on the 32-bit builds -- which means I suffer that selfsame "degraded performance". Haven't noticed a slowdown, really.

I believe Standard Operating Policy for linux distros is to build Qt5 that way. Of course, they also tend to patch calibre, so pick your poison.

09-27-2015, 01:30 AM	#8
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	And technically speaking, those computers can run calibre too, if built against against a copy of Qt5 that was compiled without SSE2 support. Okay, performance might drop. But... old computer... For that matter, my distro (ArchLinux) builds Qt5 without SSE2 on the 32-bit builds -- which means I suffer that selfsame "degraded performance". Haven't noticed a slowdown, really. I believe Standard Operating Policy for linux distros is to build Qt5 that way. Of course, they also tend to patch calibre, so pick your poison. Last edited by eschwartz; 09-27-2015 at 01:39 AM.