On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 06:05:26 Central Daylight Time Avi Kivity via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> The Standard should be implementable without breaking the ABI.
>
> However, the Standard should not refrain from adopting features on the
> grounds that an ABI break is required to benefit from them. It should
> be left up to the vendors to decide if they want to bump the ABI or
> not.

But if they decide they cannot afford to bump the ABI, then they cannot
implement the new feature in the first place and thus can't maintain pace with
the standard. Since most of the vendors are also committee members, this is
likely going to cause the feature to be dropped from the standard the first
place.

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  Principal Engineer - Intel Platform & System Engineering