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Date:      Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:00:37 +0100
From:      Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C4lven?= <alven@freebsd.org>, diizzy@freebsd.org
Cc:        Daniel Engberg <diizzy@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: ddd386c470a1 - main - textproc/krep: [NEW PORT] High-performance string search utility
Message-ID:  <aZm6hSgYs52FZAEk@fuz.su>
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Am Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 10:18:24AM +0400 schrieb Älven:
> Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >
> > All SIMD "hacks/detection" should be disabled as we have CPUTYPE and
> > the current approach is also broken as host might not share the same
> > CPU features as target.

The feature detection is gated behind a non-default option, which is fine.
The usual name for this option is NATIVE though.  I don't see why we should
not offer this, it just shouldn't be the default.

Long term, upstream should perhaps be motivated to do runtime dispatch
for different levels of SIMD.

> > Best regard,
> > Daniel

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

> Thank you! Agree. Committed [0].
> 
> [0] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=17c13889a5137e45011a083759a1879fec109613
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Älven



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