Re: [ANN] Linux on POWER Developer Contest ends in less than 60 days

From: John Hasler (john_at_dhh.gt.org)
Date: 05/24/05 

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:21:16 -0500

I wrote:
> Applications should be designed to be portable.

Måns Rullgård writes:
> While that is true, many applications can benefit from CPU-specific
> optimizations.

I wrote:
> That can be done portably.

Måns Rullgård writes:
> Applications should be compilable and runnable on anything, but may have
> certain optimizations that are only used where they are available,
> typically using conditional compilation based on the target CPU.

That's portable. 

-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

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