CPU dispatching in GMP is flawed

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2010-08-09 10:32:33 -0300, Jonathan Blanchard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Agner Fog <agner at agner.org> wrote:
> > [...] CPU dispatching should be based on instruction sets for
> > unknown processors.

I agree.

> True that GMP is blazingly fast on my Phenom :D In case where the
> build process of GMP mis-detect or can't detect the cpu it's possible
> to force the architecture it will build for. Most via processor have
> 100% compatibility with an equivalent Intel or AMD cpu.

But this means that you cannot have a fat binary in such a case.
This can be a problem for binary distributions, in particular.

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