[Zlib-devel] patch-in-progress: vectorized adler32 calculation

[Stefan Fuhrmann]

Gilles Vollant wrote:
> " I'm currently not decided whether to support MMX at all. It would only be
> used on processors older than 5 years, would get little test coverage and
> yields only a modest performance improvement."
>
> I suggest you support even older processor (without MMX), without
> performance consideration, just to not hang
>   
Today's code will always be there as a fallback
since we have to support non-x86/x64 CPUs
as well.For x86 there will be a #define for pre-
486 CPUs since they don't support CPUID.

-- Stefan^2.