[Bug-gnubg] autoconf, --enable-sse, SIMD, AVX

2013-06-20 Thread Michael Petch
Howdy all, Some may not be aware that Philippe committed support for the AVX SIMD instruction set. I added and cleaned up support code for cputest builds (that now support 32bit and 64bit with in and without -fpic option when built for an Intel processor with a GNUC compiler or equivalent). I

Re: [Bug-gnubg] autoconf, --enable-sse, SIMD, AVX

2013-06-20 Thread Øystein Schønning-Johansen
Totally agree. SSE as a term is even architecture dependent. SIMD is not. When the whole world has started using ARM processors, we have the configure option --enable-simd=neon ready! -Øystein On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Michael Petch mpe...@gnubg.org wrote: Howdy all, Some may not be