Ivy Bridge Support

[Matthias Kretz]

On Friday 07 September 2012 03:22:08 Sven Langkamp wrote:
> currently Vc doesn't check for Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs (Family 6, Model 58).
> Falls back to Core2 and doesn't enabled AVX.
> Can that be added?

done. Let me know if it works as expected.

BTW, do you have interest in the F16C instructions IvyBridge supports? I.e. 
store your floating-point data with 16-bit but do calculations in 32-bit? This 
may move a bottleneck from I/O to calculation.

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Dipl.-Phys. Matthias Kretz
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