On 2010-Jun-10 12:25:03 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >Sage builds on Solaris systems with SPARC processors. These will >never have SSE instructions, as the processor is completely different >to Intel/AMD. You can check if the system has a sparc processor by >detecting if __sparc__ is defined. In which case, you can >immediately rule out there being SSE instructions of any sort.
The UltraSPARC architecture does define a set of SIMD multimedia instructions referred to as "VIS", though these only support integer and fixed-point fractions. On 2010-Jun-10 18:03:33 +0400, Sergey Bochkanov <sergey.bochka...@alglib.net> wrote: >Itanium doesn't support SSE, you are right. It may support an alternative SIMD instruction set. -- Peter Jeremy
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