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28 Jul 2024 14:35:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SSE2 or non-SSE2? beta 29 put SSE2  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 4 Oct 2008 06:59:04
Message: <48e74c78@news.povray.org>
Bob Hughes wrote:
> That's how I noticed this install had already done it for me, so I wanted to 
> point that out here if it wasn't done so by design. Common sense tells me 
> the installer would use the non-SSE2, so I was wondering if this was the 
> intent or if somehow the installer knew I used SSE2 almost exclusively-- or 
> selects it from CPU info it finds.

Yes, it's by design - the installer asks for system info and if it finds
that SSE2 is available it will make the shortcuts point to the SSE2
executable. However both binaries are installed, as before.

-- Chris


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