2008/4/17, Jens M Andreasen <jens.andreasen(a)comhem.se>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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