Re: cpu feature dependencies? (was: Re: Migration to Pentium?)
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:50:43PM +0100, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> I think this should rather be handled either by dlopen()ing the right
> shared object containing optimized code, or by using the libc's own way
> of handling it. Adding an extra package and CPU dependencies would lead
> to all sorts of issues when changing the host's CPU, for instance.
The problem here is that the speed gained by cpu-specific
optimizations could easily get canceled by the overhead of using -fPIC
when compiling.
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Michel "Walken" LESPINASSE
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