Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Faidon Liambotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery wrote:
However, a user mentioned that he thinks all chips that fall into the
amd64 architecture have SSE and hence adding -msse would be safe for the
amd64 build. Is that correct? And in general
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 07:05:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
gnubg supports optionally building with SSE support for increased speed in
the analytical engine. I have to date kept this disabled to not generate
binaries that might not run on all otherwise-supported Debian systems.
However, a
And check if there is any sse3 support. That one needs cpu suport on
amd64 too.
Are there amd64 machines which do *not* support sse3?
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 07:17:14AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
Also, it looks like it probes at runtime for SSE, so I may be able to
build with that on i386 as well.
If it probes, it is most likely loading an optimized asm module, and you
dont need the SSE switch at all.
If you use gcc
Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And check if there is any sse3 support. That one needs cpu suport on
amd64 too.
Are there amd64 machines which do *not* support sse3?
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
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model name : AMD
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 07:05:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
gnubg supports optionally building with SSE support for increased speed in
the analytical engine. I have to date kept this disabled to not generate
binaries that might not run on all
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 04:06:40PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want to have different optimizations depending on the cpu,
there are a two options I know of:
- When you hace shared libraries you can put them in directories like
Does any Athlon64 support sse3?
yes, since Venice Stepping E3 and San Diego Stepping E4.
But thanks for the reminder, there were indeed CPUs before that.
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:02:24PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
- When you hace shared libraries you can put them in directories like
/usr/lib/i686/sse/. The dynamic linker whould pick it up for
you in that case. (I have no idea if it looks at i686/sse or not,
but it looks at various
in
constraints (or use SSE intrinsics), you'll need -msse even if you write
all the SSE code yourself. It's not an unusual situation.
After further investigation, it looks like gnubg does runtime probing, but
if you tell it to use SSE, it also adds -msse to the build flags. Will
building with -msse break
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:36:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
After further investigation, it looks like gnubg does runtime probing, but
if you tell it to use SSE, it also adds -msse to the build flags. Will
building with -msse break the binaries on i386 chips without SSE all by
itself, even
gnubg supports optionally building with SSE support for increased speed in
the analytical engine. I have to date kept this disabled to not generate
binaries that might not run on all otherwise-supported Debian systems.
However, a user mentioned that he thinks all chips that fall into the
amd64
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, a user mentioned that he thinks all chips that fall into the
amd64 architecture have SSE and hence adding -msse would be safe for the
amd64 build. Is that correct?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 says:
Russ Allbery wrote:
However, a user mentioned that he thinks all chips that fall into the
amd64 architecture have SSE and hence adding -msse would be safe for the
amd64 build. Is that correct? And in general are there any guidelines
about things like this? I assume that using -msse for the
Faidon Liambotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery wrote:
However, a user mentioned that he thinks all chips that fall into the
amd64 architecture have SSE and hence adding -msse would be safe for the
amd64 build. Is that correct? And in general are there any guidelines
about things
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Also, it looks like it probes at runtime for SSE, so I may be able to
build with that on i386 as well.
If it probes, it is most likely loading an optimized asm module, and you
dont need the SSE switch at all.
Gruss
Bernd
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