Re: [Interest] Qt and SSE2

2018-02-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 9 February 2018 10:09:03 PST Eric Lemanisser wrote: > That is not my experience: https://godbolt.org/g/ZZG1mp That's not a valid test because you forgot the -m32 switch. Disabling SSE2 on 64-bit is nonsensical. Try this one instead: https://godbolt.org/g/C853Gx As I said in the other

Re: [Interest] Qt and SSE2

2018-02-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 9 February 2018 08:36:59 PST Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Qt is built with SSE2 by default since 5.3.0. Is there a reason for not > > enabling by default SSE2 for application compilation ? If not I'll start > > working on a change doing that. > > Because we didn't want to force that on us

Re: [Interest] Qt and SSE2

2018-02-09 Thread Eric Lemanisser
That is not my experience: https://godbolt.org/g/ZZG1mp Le ven. 9 févr. 2018 à 18:58, Marian Beermann a écrit : > SSE et al are mostly helpful if you have code either using these > instructions directly (assembly, intrinsics) or being written in a way > that the optimizer can easily take advanta

Re: [Interest] Qt and SSE2

2018-02-09 Thread Marian Beermann
SSE et al are mostly helpful if you have code either using these instructions directly (assembly, intrinsics) or being written in a way that the optimizer can easily take advantage of (see what Thiago wrote). For general application code they generally do very little if anything by themselves. -M

Re: [Interest] Qt and SSE2

2018-02-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 9 February 2018 08:15:19 PST Eric Lemanisser wrote: > Qt is built with SSE2 by default since 5.3.0. Is there a reason for not > enabling by default SSE2 for application compilation ? If not I'll start > working on a change doing that. Because we didn't want to force that on users. It's

[Interest] Qt and SSE2

2018-02-09 Thread Eric Lemanisser
Qt is built with SSE2 by default since 5.3.0. Is there a reason for not enabling by default SSE2 for application compilation ? If not I'll start working on a change doing that. Also, any plan migrating to SSE3 or SSSE3 ? Eric Lemanissier ___ Interest mai