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authorCristiano Urban <cristiano.urban.slack@gmail.com>2015-08-03 08:49:44 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2015-08-03 08:49:44 +0700
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+libcpuid is a small C library for x86 CPU detection and feature extraction.
+Using it, you can:
+
+* get the processor vendor, model, brand string, code name
+* get information about CPU features such as: number of cores or logical CPUs, cache sizes, CPU clock
+* check if the processor implements a specific instruction set such as the SSE2, 3DNow!
+* execute the CPUID and RDTSC instructions (portably!)
+* and have this all in your commercial application, without getting into trouble.
+
+It works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, both 32-bit and 64-bit flavours. Compiler support
+includes GCC and Microsoft Visual C++ (and compatible, e.g. Intel C++ compiler).