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Ocamlopt x86-32 and SSE2

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- Goswin von Brederlow
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    - Jon Harrop
      - Dmitry Bely
        
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        Dmitry Bely
        
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  - Florian Weimer

Date:	2009-05-10 (19:25)
From:	Florian Weimer <fw@d...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Ocamlopt x86-32 and SSE2

* Goswin von Brederlow:

> Having ocaml require SSE2 is quite unacceptable for someone with a Via
> C7 cpu (they don't have SSE2, right?)

More problematic are AMD's K7 and some of their Sempron processors, I
think.  AMD introduced SSE2-less CPUs as late as 2004.