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  1. Bug #664431
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Comment 15 for bug 664431

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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote : Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:
> Matthias Klose [2010-10-27 14:44 -0000]:
>> I don't get it.  I certainly prefer a working package on all supported
>> platforms, even if it runs slower on some of them.  We would do the same on
>> other platforms if we would detect a package built with, e.g. -msse2
>
> I agree. We specifically said that we don't want NEON enabled in any
> package (yet), so this has never been intended.

Sure, but as it does improve the performance a lot on hardwares that
support NEON, I also agree that this is post release regression.

For users for sure it would sound weird to have a fix that actually
decreases a lot the performance of qt based applications on their
hardware after an update.