rather silly question

[leon]

sorry if this is rather a stupid question...

was wondering if it was possible (whilst runing in Linux on PPC
architecture) to link against Mac's OS X altivec libraries. In other
words, is it at all possible to copy the library files (released by
Apple) for vectorised DSP and link against those files when creating
Linux binaries thus being able to "tap" into the obviously optimised (by
Apple for their own hardware - so presumption is that they will know
best how to do so) functionality of DSP libraries...

Kind regards,
Leon.

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Nope, Linux don't have same kernel or libaries. I think FreeScale are
developing some Altivec optimized libraries for LinuxPPC.

Pietro