Re: [AD] Re: CPU detection for Macintosh

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> Peter Hull wrote:
> > I didn't do this because, as you say, Allegro doesn't make any use of it.
>
> I don't think not making use of it is a very good reason. The SSE3 flags 
> and such were added, but they're not used. Some programs just like to 
> report what it finds. Individual program could make use of the info too, 
> and if Allegro detects it for coders, they wouldn't have to worry about 
> making their own routines to find out.


i added SSE2,3  detection to the cpu_capabilites resently, not because 
allegro uses SSE2/3 code, but so that i can test for it, and then add my 
own SSE2,3 code.