On Friday, 13 April 2018 at 15:47, Germano Massullo wrote:
> As darktable co-maintainer, today I was speaking with darix from
> OpenSUSE community, which maintains such package on that distro.
> On their OBS build system, they are able to build various packages each
> one optimized for a single x86_64 CPU generation using @BUILD_FLAVOR@ +
> _multibuild file.[1] So for example they have packages
> darktable-broadwell
> darktable-ivybridge
> darktable-sandybridge
> darktable-skylake
> darktable-skylake-avx512
> 
>  darix also said "that is an OBS feature, nothing that you can just copy
> to koji[...]"
> "there is no generic solution to this for a normal distro package".
> 
> I would like to study a way to make darktable (sub)packages very
> optimized for each CPU generation, so I am asking you if that is
> possible on Fedora, and what I should study to achieve it.

On Fedora 27+ (glibc 2.26+), you can use the standard way of building
optimized libraries and putting them in platform and capability-specific
directories, e.g.:
/usr/lib64/haswell
/usr/lib64/haswell/avx512_1
/usr/lib64/xeon_phi

It's not the same as OBS does, but it's better than nothing.

See this article for more information
https://clearlinux.org/blogs/transparent-use-library-packages-optimized-intel-architecture

Regards,
Dominik
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