[LAD] optimum binary distribution (was: vectorization)

[Nick Bailey]

>
> This sounds really cumbersome. And some very widely used distributions
> do not install a C-Compiler by default.
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers
> -Richard

How about getting the package installer to do the test and select the 
appropriate binary (or at least dl lib)? Of course, that'd screw up machines 
which nfs mount /usr/bin, but do many people use diskless workstations these 
days? And you wouldn't have to run the checks every time the application 
started up.

Just a thought...

NJB/.