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diff --git a/libraries/libcpuid/README b/libraries/libcpuid/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f78e3ce45c --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libcpuid/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +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). |