Comment by dtech
2 years ago
If like me you were unaware of the "x86-64-v.." classification, here is an overview: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...
2 years ago
If like me you were unaware of the "x86-64-v.." classification, here is an overview: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...
See also:
> In 2020, through a collaboration between AMD, Intel, Red Hat, and SUSE, three microarchitecture levels (or feature levels) on top of the x86-64 baseline were defined: x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4.[41][42] These levels define specific features that can be targeted by programmers to provide compile-time optimizations. The features exposed by each level are as follows:[43]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...
Assuming APX[1] actually becomes a thing, that will be an even more significant feature level.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Advanced_Performance_Ext...