Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Is there a way to use SSE when available and x86 when it's not.
Probably, but I don't think there is any point doing so. The main benefit of SSE2 is to get higher performance on floating point intensive code, which no pure Python code could be regarded as (the CPU cycles elapsed between two FP instructions would dwarf the cost of executing the FP instructions themselves). The situation is different for specialized packages like numpy, but their decisions need not be the same as ours AFAIK. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1580> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
