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Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC] SIMD proposal
From: Cory Nelson (phrosty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-23 21:50:34
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Gruenke, Matt <mgruenke_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> cpuid? Â It seems to me that the *only* thing that should determine how the program gets compiled is the compiler flags, since the target platform might have either less or more capability than the build machine. Â I've experienced both cases, firsthand.
Agreed -- I'm currently writing a lot of code for AVX and SSE4, and my
CPU supports neither. I'd hope to be able to transition to a Boost
SIMD library when it became available. We should be able to use any
instruction set available on the target platform.
-- Cory Nelson http://int64.org
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