# 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 –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.</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