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Generally speaking the vendor libraries have dynamic dispatch support, which can identify which functions are available on a CPU and then deploy to the best at runtime. Intel got into some hot water for having their dispatch hurt performance on AMD CPUs, but it seems that's been fixed. Their IPP-Crypto and AMD's AOCL-Cryptography libraries both support dynamic dispatch these days, for example.


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