hardware::smp

[Justin B Rye]

Kari Pahula wrote:
> This doesn't seem to be covered by anything else yet.
> 
> How about a tag to mark packages that have something to do with SMP
> support?  I was tagging pbzip2 and was left thinking that it could use
> one more tag that bzip2 didn't have.
> 
> For reference: pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2
> block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves
> near-linear speedup on SMP machines.
> 
> Would hardware::smp be appropriate for this?

I recently argued that a new tag "hardware::cpu" would be adequate
instead of a large number of tags for particular kinds of processor;
I think the same argument fits here too.

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