Hi Ciara Loftus,

We may need some legacy support for the SSE path for earlier systems. Or it
will not be a problem ?
As you specified that modern x86 systems all support AVX2, if not AVX-512.
Still, we might need some type of support for the SSE path.


Best Regards,
Khadem

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com> wrote:

> Modern x86 systems all support AVX2, if not AVX-512, so the SSE path
> is no longer widely used. This change will not result in any feature
> loss, as in the rare cases where the SSE path would have been used in
> the absence of AVX2 or AVX-512, the fallback scalar path will be used
> which has feature parity with SSE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
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