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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: davidg@Root.COM, lehey.pad@sni.de
Subject: Re: stanford benchmark/usenix
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>Wouldn't it make more sense to have separate libraries for each
>processor type, and to install the appropriate versions?

This only works for shared libraries.  You can probably get more
performance by not using shared libraries than by local optimizations
in them.

Bruce