aha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dose anyone know of a cross-platform method for determining the vendor >of a processor? Under linux I can check /proc/cpuinfo. What I'd like >to be able to do is determine if a processor is AMD or Intel, so that >I can use the appropriate numerical libraries for my application.
If you have a numerical library that uses processor-specific instructions, then the library must be in C with assembler. If so, just add another function that does a "cpuid" instruction and return the results. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list