# HG changeset patch
# User Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>
# Date 1423684104 -3600
#      Wed Feb 11 20:48:24 2015 +0100
# Branch extradoc
# Node ID b04699f2349375b1c74e503bd160094dab0c9159
# Parent  0ef10b1892275e7ed708559cdf2f7492c06cc450
Remove explicit mention of --jit-backend=x86-without-sse2.

diff --git a/download.html b/download.html
--- a/download.html
+++ b/download.html
@@ -161,8 +161,11 @@
 <li><a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads">All our downloads,</a> including previous versions.  We also have a
 <a class="reference external" href="http://cobra.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de/~buildmaster/mirror/">mirror</a>, but please use only if you have troubles accessing the links above</li>
 </ul>
-<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
diff --git a/source/download.txt b/source/download.txt
--- a/source/download.txt
+++ b/source/download.txt
@@ -129,8 +129,11 @@
 .. __: 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