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> On 5/27/2010 1:56 PM, Josh Gargus wrote:
> >
> >I loves me my bit-identical computation, but statically linking to the
> >same version of the library doesn't necessarily give it.  For example, a
> >video decoder may check hardware capabilities, and depending on what it
> >finds decode the video on the GPU, using SSE, or just using the non-vector
> >CPU instructions.
> >
> >There are some examples where we would make the case that the library
> >needs to be statically linked in order to provide bit-identical
> >computation(eg: fdlibm for Croquet math operations), but for things like
> >JPEG I think that the argument is pretty weak.
>
> Agreed.