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Hello GemStone Users,<br>
<br>
We wanted to let you know that our upcoming 3.7 release will require
certain CPU capabilities to run GemStone on Linux x86_64 hardware.<br>
<br>
Those CPU capabilities are: <br>
<ul>
<li>aes</li>
<li>avx</li>
<li>mmx <br>
</li>
<li>pclmul</li>
</ul>
<br>
These CPU requirements only apply to Linux x86_64.<br>
<br>
Intel Haswell (2011) and newer processors and AMD Bulldozer (2011)
and newer processors should have these capabilities.<br>
All of these features have been around for more than 10 years and
chances are your Linux hardware already has these capabilities.<br>
<br>
The reason for this requirement is to make more registers available
to the C/C++ compiler, resulting in faster performance.<br>
<br>
Please contact me directly if you have concerns or require running
GemStone on hardware that does not support the above features.<br>
<br>
Norm Green<br>
Chief Technical Officer<br>
GemTalk Systems LLC<br>
norm (dot) green (at) gemtalksystems(dot) com<br>
<br>
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