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Commit b04699f2 authored by Armin Rigo's avatar Armin Rigo
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Remove explicit mention of --jit-backend=x86-without-sse2.

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<p>If your CPU is really old, it may not have SSE2. In this case, you need
to <a class="reference internal" href="#translate">translate</a> yourself with the option <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--jit-backend=x86-without-sse2</span></tt>.</p>
<p>If your CPU is really, really old, it may be a x86-32 without SSE2.
We could at some point make a PyPy with a JIT without SSE2 &ndash;ask us
on IRC if you really want to know more&ndash; but note that your machine
is probably low-spec enough that running CPython on it is a better
idea in the first place.</p>
<p><tt class="docutils literal">[1]:</tt> stating it again: the Linux binaries are provided for the
distributions listed here. <strong>If your distribution is not exactly this
one, it won't work,</strong> you will probably see: <tt class="docutils literal">pypy: error while loading shared
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.. __: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads/pypy3-2.4.0-src.zip
.. __: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads
If your CPU is really old, it may not have SSE2. In this case, you need
to translate_ yourself with the option ``--jit-backend=x86-without-sse2``.
If your CPU is really, really old, it may be a x86-32 without SSE2.
We could at some point make a PyPy with a JIT without SSE2 ---ask us
on IRC if you really want to know more--- but note that your machine
is probably low-spec enough that running CPython on it is a better
idea in the first place.
``[1]:`` stating it again: the Linux binaries are provided for the
distributions listed here. **If your distribution is not exactly this
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