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Tag: simd
May 13, 2011
How to detect Altivec availability on linux/ppc at runtime
It is easy to find information on how to detect the availability of the different SSE instructions sets on the x86 platform.. but this get trickier when you’re looking after AltiVec. This page provide some code and a link explaining why methods based on try and catch exception are bad: http://freevec.org/function/altivec_runtime_detection_linux I did few modifications […]