none of the things in that bug affect your ability to use the instructions. Most are actually very minor.
-- Rich On Mar 15, 2012 6:37 PM, "Bob Friesenhahn" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is someone working on adding AVX instruction support to Illumos as > described at > "https://www.illumos.org/**issues/533<https://www.illumos.org/issues/533> > "? > > The recent Intel and AMD CPUs support AVX (256 bit math) instructions. Use > of AVX instructions can provide a large boost over SSE2+ in performance > (e.g. over 2x). Without support for it in the OS (at least register > preservation across context switches), it is impossible to use AVX > instructions, even if the compiler supports it (GCC 4.6 somewhat supports > it, with 4.7 being much better). > > This bug is currently marked with "low" status but given that AVX is a > major new feature of CPUs currently available (e.g. Intel "Core 2 + AVX", > Intel "Sandy Bridge", and AMD "Bulldozer"), it seems like the bug should be > given increased priority. > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/** > users/bfriesen/ <http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/> > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > > ------------------------------**------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: > https://www.listbox.com/**member/archive/182180/=now<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/**member/archive/rss/182180/** > 21175744-56998d87<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175744-56998d87> > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/** > member/?&id_**secret=21175744-f33e7f52<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
