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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: Jon Ellis <jje@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The SIMD debacle
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:37:57
Message-Id: 20030930143754.GA1800@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] The SIMD debacle by Jon Ellis
1 On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:46:49PM +0900, Jon Ellis wrote:
2 > Can someone explain the sse / 3dnow! situation to me?
3 >
4 > My understanding is that most modern intel and amd chips supprt sse,
5 > but only amd support 3dnow! Is this correct? Why would someone with a
6 > pentium 4 box have 3dnow in their use flags?
7 >
8
9 They shouldn't. It was, however, in make.defaults at one point - I have
10 no idea why.
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12 I removed it a while back.
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