On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> I didn't do this because of RHEL9, I did it because it's silly that
> QEMU cannot use POPCNT and has to waste 2% of the L1 d-cache to
> compute the x86 parity flag (and POPCNT was introduced at the same
> time as SSE4.2).

>From looking at that POPCNT patch I understood that Qemu detects
presence of POPCNT at runtime and will only use the fallback when
POPCNT is unavailable. Did I misunderstand?

Alexander

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