[SirKnightly]

Here is the nightly for Windows on 02 Mar 2015 - Revision 11270

Open non-feature issues in Mantis: 131

Group: Standard
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Group: NO-SSE
fso_NO-SSE_20150302_r11270.7z
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Group: SSE
fso_SSE_20150302_r11270.7z
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r11270 | zookeeper | 2015-03-01 17:17:24 -0600 (Sun, 01 Mar 2015) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   M /trunk/fs2_open/code/parse/lua.cpp

Fixed shield handle not returning correct quads when indexing with the SHIELD_* enums.
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[Macfie]

Any chance of going to an AVX build.  I know this was talked about over a year ago in this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=85566.0).  This survey (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=85616.0) indicates that it could be used by at least half of the people and provides a small performance gain. 

[AdmiralRalwood]

Any chance of going to an AVX build.  I know this was talked about over a year ago in this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=85566.0).  This survey (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=85616.0) indicates that it could be used by at least half of the people and provides a small performance gain. 

As somebody who's been compiling AVX builds, I can assure you that the performance gain is indeed small; as in not really noticeable (and that's after fixing the project file so that it's not still using SSE2 optimizations).

That being said, I think the current plan is to start incorporating them into releases/nightlies some time after 3.7.2 Final.

[Macfie]

Back when the initial testing was in progress I saw about a 3% gain.  Don't know if that's still true.  However, thanks for the information.

[chief1983]

Yeah I can't until the official build platform bumps up to something newer, and that won't happen until after 3.7.2.