Re: [PATCH] Re: [pygame] Smooth Scaling (pygame.transform.smoothscale)

[Laura Creighton <lac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In a message of Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:18:41 +0200, mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Laura Creighton <lac@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>
>> If you are on a BSD or linux system you will have a file
>> /proc/cpuinfo which can tell you what sort of CPU you have and
>
>FreeBSD does not use /proc anymore and has it disabled by default.
>
>> whether it has MMX support or not.  I don't know where Windows
>> keeps such information.  (And really old unix-and-unix-like
>> systems don't have this file, but they don't have MMX either,
>> so you are all set.)
>
>For !Win32 systems we could rely on the -march settings of the processor.
>According to the manual, the GCC specifies MMX and SSE/SSE2/SSE3 for
>several archs, so we just have to test on them. For Win32 I just know abo
>ut
>the CPUID hacks, but that's only interesting for runtime checks.
>
>Regards
>Marcus

Aha, I did not know that.  Thank you. According to:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-March/117134.html

sysctl -a 

will give you the same information on Freebsd systems.  Just in case
anybody cares because setting the -march settings looks to accomplish
the same thing, and is a lot easier.

Laura