Re: [ggt-devel] Platform Specific Optimization of GMTL

[Allen B. <al...@vr...>]

Galen Faidley wrote:
> I was wondering what the best way to perform platform specific 
> optimization on GMTL was?  Apple provides a vector library for OS X that 
> will use the G4 and G5's vector units.  It would be nice if GMTL on OS X 
> was basically just a wrapper around this library.
> 
> Thanks
> Galen

If you want to contribute some code that can allow for OSX 
optimizations, we are more then happy to take them.

That said, we have tried to keep GMTL as platform neutral as possible 
and we rely upon the compilers to be smart enough to help out when 
optimizing the code.  So if Apple has contributed optimizers to gcc to 
help make use of their hardware, you may already be getting the benefit 
of it.

-Allen

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