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Re: fftw: Usage of SSE in 64bit?



Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de> writes:

> Is there a specific reason why SSE is enabled for 32bit and not enabled for 
> 64bit as the difference in performance can easily be a factor of 2 (on 64bit).

Good question.  Perhaps the maintainer thought that those options merely
turned on compiler flags which would be redundant on amd64 systems,
which all support SSE2 at a minimum.

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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