On Tuesday, 6 December 2016 at 09:12:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
My Mac Mini sez:
~> sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features
machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC
SEP MTRR PGE
MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM
PBE SSE3
PCLMULQDQ DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM
SSE4.1 SSE4.2
xAPIC POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE TSCTMR AVX1.0
My older MM clearly does not support AVX2, though.
AVX2 is not listed in machdep.cpu.features, at least not on my
machine; you need to look in the machdep.cpu.leaf7_features list.
https://csharpmulticore.blogspot.nl/2014/12/how-to-check-intel-avx2-support-on-mac-os-x-haswell.html
-Johan
