On 05/10/2015 18:25, Stroller wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 4 October 2015, at 11:38 p.m., Alan McKinnon 
>> <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I see that the ffmpeg ebuild requires that mmxext is set if sse is set.
>>>
>>> Isn't mmxext amd-only?
>>
>> Definitely not. Intel designed mmx
> 
> The ffmpeg has both "mmx" and "mmxext" USE flags - presumably they're not the 
> same thing. 


Correct. mmxext is AMD's set of extensions to standard mmx.
Useful stuff from mmxext later made it's way into sse.

http://softpixel.com/~cwright/programming/simd/mmxext.php

> 
> CPU_FLAGS_X86="3dnow 3dnowext avx avx2 fma3 fma4 mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 
> sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 xop" 
> 
> My AMD Neon supports both.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com


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