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On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 2:55 PM Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
> Some years ago I tried to get such runtime detection added for vlc.
> Upstream was certainly far from helpful and just about hostile to the
> idea of adding
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:08:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Well, you could have runtime detection like certain multimedia codes and
> OpenSSL use but
> most packages don't do that.
>
> Either way, if certain downstreams want better support for certain targets,
> they are
On 7/16/21 12:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> I would argue that there are far more users with PowerMacs which all support
>> AltiVecs than
>> with obscure embedded machines. As I said, some packages like nss2 already
>> enabled AltiVec
>> by default.
>
> Does it have to be one or the other?
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 2:59 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> On 7/15/21 5:49 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> > I disagree too because the performance of software with AltiVec support
> > isn't as
> > high as expected. I tested it a lot because we have AltiVec and Non-Altivec
> >
On 7/15/21 5:49 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> I disagree too because the performance of software with AltiVec support isn't
> as
> high as expected. I tested it a lot because we have AltiVec and Non-Altivec
> machines
> here. We changed to Non-AltiVec compiled software a while ago.
It depends
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