Re: [AD] CPU info changes

[Bob <ohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Henrik Stokseth wrote:

> Bob <ohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > > it also makes it harder and slower to get this info.
> > > parsing a string to fetch this info is just a bad idea IMO.
> >
> > I don't know about you, but I tend not to fetch CPU info a few million
> times
>
> > per second :-P
>
> it's not speed i'm converned about. this info should be easily accessible,
> and it is so in binary form. string parsing is *overkill*. and is really the
> only thing i do not like about the CPU info changes.
>
> i'd much more like to be able to use: if(cpu.family == 5) than say: if,
> while, strtok, strcmp and atoi, just to get the same done.


Although that's true, it's not an operation that is down very often (if even 
at all!). So we have a little freedom as to how to implement it. I'm not a 
big fan of having 200 global variables though.

In any case, this is becomming a simple matter of opinion, where there isn't 
really any Best Way(tm) of doing things.

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