alt Hacker NewsIt'd need some kind of compile-time hardware-feature-detection, yea? That seems probably feasible since proc macros can do essentially anything they like (worryingly).
It'd need some kind of compile-time hardware-feature-detection, yea? That seems probably feasible since proc macros can do essentially anything they like (worryingly).
Only if the end-user is the one compiling the software, on the same very system they'll be running it on. Which is true of GPU shader kernels, due to how GPU drivers work; but isn't generally true of CPU object code (unless you're on Gentoo.)
What you'd actually want is a matrix of variant implementations burned into the binary, with runtime (or process-boot-time) hardware detection that swaps symbols out to point to the correct variant.