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...at compile time, someone could just compile the OS on one machine and write the OS onto a hard drive, move the drive to another machine, try to boot off it and crash. There are a couple of different ways to do this on MacOS. These are described here: http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/g3_compatibility.html On Intel, there is a instruction you can use to find out what version of the CPU you have and by extension what level of vector support it provides. One problem is that this instruction isn't on every processor you are likely to run across, so you still have to do the try/catch met...

Hi, I have been playing with Altivec, and I rewrote a couple of the routines in assembly. Looking at the archives, I noticed that there may already be some effort on this. Anyways... Right now, I have two routines working. They need to be cleaned up, made relocatable, and documented; otherwise, they seem to work fairly well. I see an overall ~27% speed improvement when encoding with the

Greetings, <p>my apologies for putting this trash in the mailing list but the topic about SSE run-time option interested me pretty much. Looks like some people is really experienced on the topic. I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to good resources about SSE and Altivec (not necessarly on the net, I'm ready to invest some money if necessary). I already have intel