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According to Dave Korn on 9/2/2009 10:07 PM:
>   If we turn on SSE in the distro, we block anyone using Pentium2 or early
> (pre-XP) Athlon CPUs from using Cygwin.  I think that might be a step too far.

Recent glibc has started providing function overloads, where the library
contains both SSE and non-SSE variants, then decides at runtime what
hardware it is on, and calls the appropriate overload.  But I don't know
how easy that would be to port to PE semantics.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [email protected]
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