On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:09:40PM -0700, Penguin Lover Tom Smith squawked:
> Are these flags mutually exclusive?
>
> I know, for example, that if I have a Pentium II that the MMX flag
> should apply while the sse and sse2 flags would not.
>
> But what if I have a Pentium III or IV? Would I only use the most recent
> "optimization" or do I need to add all three to take advantage of each one?
>
> I checked the USE flag descriptions and there wasn't anything indicating
> indicating whether the can or should be used together.
>
Not quite sure how it works officially. But I run a Pentium IV, and I
have mmx mmxext sse sse2 enabled, so they are at least NOT mutually
exclusive.
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