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On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 05:50:38PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: |
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> AFAIK, some packages (e.g., dev-cpp/eigen) can use AltiVec vectorization |
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> only when -mabi=altivec is specified in GCC flags. |
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> Is it safe to use -mabi=altivec in global CFLAGS in make.conf? |
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I've had that ever since I startd using PowerPC, |
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without any problems I that I would consider attributing to that. |
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> Does anybody know if the system will perform better or worse in average? |
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I did not do any comparisons. |
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Wolfram |