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Re: arch optimation for debian packages (here: soundtouch)



On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 01:14:39PM +0100, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> The audio processing library SoundTouch [1,2] is a major CPU eater in
> many applications (see, e.g. [3]). I'm now asking myself to what
> degree we allow optimization for CPU arches in Debian (e.g., MMX,
> SSE).
You cannot unconditionally use instructions not supported by minimal CPUs
in each architecture, this means no MMX in i386 and only SSE2 and earlier
on amd64. You can enable anything at run time if support was detected.

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