From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9Q2R-0007xP-Fw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:47:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4532AE046F; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f175.google.com (mail-bw0-f175.google.com [209.85.218.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED73EE046F for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so4448327bwz.34 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:47:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=X86khqGfg0pKhG78vzQTUIMlmOiwxvA7S8lXmkJlirY=; b=OjOcKt/MyLu9+d1YmsK+9FVDxh+OUD+U67vdAXsIisV9mHNC/Wd51w9Jk4BtQkhlUh IMT3+xLxQ+i2CFfMuVt+F22nAii8NxUWWH3kKJopg/ET8La3bhH0t27wPljxkAAPKZnK 5vxENt2gI5lvymYLL1Jp/31dNKot37zyP3BUY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=f7xamOCX7Y1ijK1Bq10oecLdoHa5DIvij+M/gfPb0YtVKxCGFSDff+nNdkK5uHFj5k NS8k1cIxWmsTM1bZ/a+6Aqrv6JCJ89t7c4BJ/mENUTRh3UqsNSzyaZY9ILXJQXz+f8Dl WkE9+ISr7Nvv+OJ3b/G1Wnf7hS1+2DOOYAPfA= Received: by 10.204.57.67 with SMTP id b3mr362601bkh.128.1243457267476; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:47:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm9143037bwz.71.2009.05.27.13.47.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 May 2009 13:47:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:47:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.3r4; KDE/4.2.87; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E38BD16-0410-4A31-839C-290364A8D735@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200905272209.36348.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905272247.43750.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 607a8137-5a0e-41a3-9262-7e8f3f1159f9 X-Archives-Hash: 2df697f206369c14dbe1361d51c6f7bc On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. > > > > There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold enough of your > > hand. > > Oh right, what was I thinking, giving the users an optional tool to make > their lives marginally easier after they've tired of trying to remember for > their thirtieth install just which of these inane x86 SIMD instructions are > supported by cpu x? I'm rolling my eyes over here, guys; that was uncalled > for and you know it. remember? a short look into /proc/cpuinfo tells you that. Or just: if it is amd, it has 3dnow. Everything recent has sse and sse2. SSE3,4,ssse3 - check cpuinfo. > > Then again, it might be egg on my face for thinking that civilised > discourse was possible on a mailing list. :/ well, it is civilised. Nobody did a personal attack. But if you think you are attacked because people disagree with you or don't think that your idea is a good one - well.. then you should not be part of discussions, true.