[bf1942] x86 optimizations?

Andrew A. Chen achen-bf1942 at divo.net
Sat Dec 28 05:08:06 EST 2002


Will it be using this information in the (near) future to do any sort of 
optimization for any specific CPU?

I'm also guessing that the 'No' response applies to 'does the server have 
any ASM code?', right?

At 12:44 AM 12/28/2002, you wrote:

> > No, I meant for general computation.  Does it use SSE vectors or anything
> > of that sort?  What I'm really asking is, does it use either the P4 or the
> > Athlon's specific asm instructions?
>
>No.
>
>It does a "cpuid" to get the info on your chip (Athlon, Pentium, 3Dnow,
>etc), but doesn't actually use them anywhere.
>
>--ryan.




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