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-forceasm switch: does it still work?

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capreppy

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Title says it all.

When you shut down SMP2 WUs (including Big Adv), can you use -forceasm to force to not use standard loops?
 
The answer is yes to both your questions. Pendantic advised me to add the flag and it is indeed enabled with the A3 WUs.
 
nitrobass24 said:
What do you mean by standard loops?
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It has been a long while since this topic was discussed in depth here, but IIRC it relates to enabling CPU functions like the various iterations of SSE and other instruction set extensions as opposed to standard processor calculations. IOW, it allow optimal performance by preventing the client to fall back on processing units with standard registers only. I don't remember specifically which instruction sets are applied, though. In the past, the client would revert to using standard loops following a crash for troubleshooting purposes.
 
My SMP client resorts to "Standard Loops" everytime I relaunch it after closing it via CRTL-C..I'd forgotten about this flag so I'm adding it right now..

 
ccityinstaller said:
My SMP client resorts to "Standard Loops" everytime I relaunch it after closing it via CRTL-C..I'd forgotten about this flag so I'm adding it right now..
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Yes, I recommend this even if the difference in PPD may not be huge, depending on the architecture you're running. For some reason the new client disables extensions even when it is properly shut down. It's really weird. Better to just have the flag on at all times to be on the safe side.
 
I remember the flag, but i have never set it and never knew what it did. Looking at my clients, my bigadv machine has been using standard loops for days now. It is down a little in ppd from when I first started it for bigadv, so maybe that is the difference.
 
i think some one needs to do a sticky on what all the useful flags are and do for each client..
 
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