On 18 Feb 2002, Bob Ham wrote: > Not really. How are plugins different from programs in this respect? I > don't think any OS says to programs "do you use SSE instructions? no? > I'll not run you then." Instead, programs (or, more usually, build > systems) say "does this machine support SSE instructions? no? I'll not > execute/build them then."
It really should be the program that detects and not the build system. :) It would be very bad if a package maintainer didn't also build the SSE2 version of a function because their machine was a P3. There's lots of code floating around to detect cpu type in the code. See mm_accel() and friends, and ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his work on speciallib. Plugins shouldn't be any different than programs, they can just as easily determine CPU type. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.div8.net/billy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
