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Add hardware POPCNT support for gcc
authorMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:18:27 +0000 (19:18 +0100)
committerMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:39:32 +0000 (09:39 +0100)
With new target 'make gcc-popcnt' it is now
possible to compile with enabled hardware POPCNT
support also with gcc. Until now was possible only
for Intel and MSVC compilers.

When this instruction is supported by CPU, for instance
on Intel i7 or i5 family, produced binary is a bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>

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