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The key reason for doing this, as stated in the article:
From what I understand, the v2 option requires relatively newer CPU instruction sets, making it incompatible with some older CPUs, even 64 bit ones. I don't know what is gained by using the v2 flag, but I would imagine that it may be something performance-related, by more fully utilizing those newer instruction sets.
Or they're deprecating shit just because, the manteiner must be just a late zoomer that drank the cool aid saying that removing old hw support is the way to go.
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