Thanks, sent key off-list
I also think I've been confusing myself, the benchmark program doesn't
check the flags. I think I will need to change the logic though, here's the
lscpu from my Radeon with AVX2
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 12
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-11
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
Model name: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor
CPU family: 25
Model: 33
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 6
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 2
BogoMIPS: 6986.86
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext
fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_
good nopl tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid
extd_apicid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes
xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm cmp_legac
y cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch
osvw topoext ibrs ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms
rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav
eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero xsaveerptr arat
umip vaes vpclmulqdq rdpid fsrm
So it does set vpclmulqdq but doesn't set avx512. Jeff's CPU has both
avx512f and vpclmulqdq, and the skylake on EC2 has avx512f but does NOT
have vpclmulqdq. This might mean that we'll want AVX2 on any AVX2 processor
with vpclmulqdq, and any AVX512 processor that does NOT have vpclmulqdq
set, does that seem logical?
