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Use AVX; fallback to SSE4.2

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After searching the documentation, I could not find a way to use AVX instructions if available, if not, use SSE4.2 instructions and if those aren't available don't optimize. Have I simply missed something? I hope this is possible.

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If "do nothing" means abort on account of lack of architecture support, with Intel Windows compilers you might set /QaxAVX /QxSSE4.2

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