[gmx-users] Runtime CPU capabilities detection

Jussi Lehtola jussi.lehtola at helsinki.fi
Wed Oct 1 01:53:53 CEST 2008


Hi,


I'm doing a Fedora package of GROMACS. Does GROMACS have runtime CPU
capability detection, i.e. if the package is compiled on a SSE-capable
processor and run on an i586 (hope not), will it work?

The safe way is, of course, to disable all assembly loops, which would
hurt performance a lot...
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