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> And code cannot tell the future. In this case it doesn't need to, I believe. There are ways to find out at runtime which instruction sets are supported, in
by FartyMcFarter 7y ago
> And code cannot tell the future.
In this case it doesn't need to, I believe. There are ways to find out at runtime which instruction sets are supported, in a vendor-agnostic way.
- arthur2e5 7y ago"Code cannot tell the future" is also the 2009 excuse Intel gave for icc not supporting processors that are GenuineIntel but not Family 6, incidentally. History is wonderful, isn't it? Back in the days we already knew what the still-current best practice to see what flags a CPU has is.
- JustFinishedBSG 7y agoYou can't expect Intel to know about obscure features like CPU feature flags, it's not like they invented it.... oh.