Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag "neon" for ARM NEON optimization(s)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:43:45
Message-Id: 4F16AFB9.4010409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag "neon" for ARM NEON optimization(s) by Mike Frysinger
1 > i agree that for some users, they've never heard of the the ARM NEON
2 > extensions, but they have heard of the neon library. i'd counter that with a
3 > few points: (1) i don't think there are any packages in the tree that have
4 > optional neon (the library) support (2) people are good at reading `quse -D
5 > neon` (3) the flag is masked everywhere except for ARM ports, so people can't
6 > really bite themselves.
7 > -mike
8
9 i agree, and it is why i've already committed the global USE=neon few
10 days ago (approx)