[LAD] optimum binary distribution (was: vectorization)

[Richard Spindler]

2008/4/17, Jens M Andreasen <jens.andreasen at comhem.se>:
>  > What do you think about the approach taken by "liboil"?
>  > http://liboil.freedesktop.org/
>  >
>  > The library has implementations for various CPU-Extensions, and at run
>  > time, when the library is initialized, a set of function pointers is
>  > set to point to the "right" implementation functions.
>
>
> It would have been smarter to have liboil.so be a symlink to
>  liboil-sse_4_1.so (or whatever hardware you may have)

What if I export /usr over NFS and have machines with different
x86-processors using that filesystem?

Having a completely "self-contained" solution sure has its merits.

Cheers
-Richard

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