MMX optimizations for KImageEffect

Fredrik Höglund fredrik at kde.org
Thu Apr 10 22:45:40 BST 2003


On Thursday 10 April 2003 22:35, Luis Pedro Coelho wrote:
> Le Jeudi 10 Avril 2003 22:18, Fredrik Höglund a écrit :
> > The reason I'm posting it here before committing it is that once this
> > has been committed it will no longer be possible to use the stable
> > version of Valgrind with CVS HEAD.
>
> I thought valgrind identified the cpu as not implementing MMX. Therefore,
> since you seem to check for CPUID and its result to see whether the
> processor has MMX, on a version of valgrind which doesn't support mmx, we
> would get the same as everyone who uses a processor without mmx: the
> compiled c++ code. I might be wrong about this, though, since i read it in
> the docs, but never actually tested.

No, you're probably right; I assumed that that feature hadn't made it into
a stable release yet, and my version of Valgrind is quite old.

I guess Valgrind isn't an issue after all.

Fredrik






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