Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> writes: > Le 03/12/2012 23:42, zezinho a écrit : >> Trying to launch openalchemist gave me a crash because Clanlib2 uses >> SSE2 on SSE2 systems for software rendering, while we disabled it at >> configure. >> >> What should we do? I think enabling it is better, as all i586 CPU with >> less than 10 years come with SSE2. But our policy forbids it ;-) > Cool. Now we have software crashing because they don't use available > features, what a nice idea...
Recent CPUs also all come out with x86_64 support, so the i586 port is basically only used for older CPUs. It makes sense to not enable SSE* optimizations for i586, to be compatible with Geode/VIA/etc processors. -- Olivier Blin - blino
