Subject: Re: YDL on new G4's [!!!] please? :-)
From: Reid Ellis (rae@tnir.mef.org)
Date: Tue Aug 31 1999 - 20:39:24 MDT
> > > No altivec optimizations. We ARE working on G4 support :)
> > Just out of curiousity, why not? Would it be too difficult? If this could be
> > done...oh man, the speed increases would be killer!!
> Well, it's not an issue of the G4 itself really..
> the 450 and 500mhz G4s are a whole new motherboard architecture like the
> iBooks.... lots of kernel work to be done.
But why no AltiVec? Is it because gcc doesn't have AltiVec support? Or you
don't want to have to keep around both *.ppc.rpm and *.g4.rpm? :-)
Reid
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