From my early 2008 Mac Pro running OS 10.7.5 Lion:
> Thu Aug  8 02:02:47 2013 |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.5 for 
> x86_64-apple-darwin
> Thu Aug  8 02:02:47 2013 |  | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 
> E5462 @ 2.80GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
> Thu Aug  8 02:02:47 2013 |  | Processor features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE 
> MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 
> SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1
> Thu Aug  8 02:02:47 2013 |  | OS: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (Darwin 11.4.2)

Note the "SSSE3" (triple S) but no "PNI".

Cheers,
--Charlie

On Aug 8, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Richard Haselgrove wrote:

> We ought to check what the OS X client currently returns.
> 
> There was a report in last year's discussion 
> http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/forum_thread.php?id=3457&postid=24240
> 
> "Just to drow in some info from a Mac mini Mid 2010:
> 
> Tue 10 Jul 23:00:11 2012 | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.43 for 
> x86_64-apple-darwin
> Tue 10 Jul 23:00:11 2012 | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo 
> CPU P8800 @ 2.66GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
> Tue 10 Jul 23:00:11 2012 | | Processor features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE 
> MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 
> SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX SMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM 
> SSE4.1 XSAVE
> Tue 10 Jul 23:00:11 2012 | | OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Darwin 10.8.0)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: David Anderson <[email protected]>
>> To: Richard Haselgrove <[email protected]> 
>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
>> Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2013, 19:47
>> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] SSE3 detection (Radim Van?o)
>> 
>> 
>> That was for FreeBSD.
>> I changed it to "pni".
>> -- David
>> 
>> On 08-Aug-2013 11:39 AM, Richard Haselgrove wrote:
>>> In this context, I'm slightly worried about the line
>>> 
>>> 688   if (hasSSE3) strcat(capabilities, "sse3 ");
>>> 
>>> in hostinfo_unix.cpp
>>> 
>>>      
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>      *From:* David Anderson <[email protected]>
>>>      *To:* [email protected]
>>>      *Sent:* Thursday, 8 August 2013, 18:59
>>>      *Subject:* Re: [boinc_dev] SSE3 detection (Radim Van?o)
>>> 
>>>      Done.
>>>      -- David
>>> 
>>>      On 08-Aug-2013 10:55 AM, Radim Vančo wrote:
>>>       > Because kernel still returns pni I think that class_plan should 
>>> also be
>>>      changed
>>>       > to use pni instead of sse3.
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>       > Dne 8.8.2013 19:50, Eric J Korpela napsal(a):
>>>       >> PNI includes more than SSE related instructions.  That's probably 
>>> why it's
>>>       >> referred to as PNI rather than SSE3
>>>       >>
>>>       >>
>>>       >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Michael Tughan <
>>>       >> [email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>       >>
>>>       >>> At least on the Linux 3.8 VM I have immediate access to, it is 
>>> still
>>>       >>> referred by PNI, not SSE3. Whether that should fully determine 
>>> how it's
>>>       >>> called, I'm not sure. It's proper name, and the one that most 
>>> people know
>>>       >>> it by, is properly SSE3.
>>>       >>>
>>>       >>> Michael Tughan
>>>       >>>
>>>       >>> On 2013-08-08, at 1:40 PM, Eric J Korpela 
>>> <[email protected]
>>>      <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>       >>> wrote:
>>>       >>>
>>>       >>>> I don't believe the Linux kernel has changed.
>>>       >>>>
>>>       >>>>
>>>       >>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Rom Walton <[email protected]
>>>      <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>       >>>>
>>>       >>>>> At the time that the code was written it also happened to be 
>>> what the
>>>       >>>>> Linux kernel was returning for the same instruction set in the 
>>> CPU
>>>       >>> features
>>>       >>>>> area of /proc/cpuinfo.
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>> We should update it if the Linux kernel has changed.
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>> My goal was to be consistent across platforms.
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>> ----- Rom
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>       >>>>> From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]
>>>      <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf
>>>       >>> Of
>>>       >>>>> Jorden van der Elst
>>>       >>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 1:32 PM
>>>       >>>>> To: Robert Kreß
>>>       >>>>> Cc: BOINC Dev Mailing List
>>>       >>>>> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] SSE3 detection (Radim Van?o)
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Robert Kreß <[email protected]
>>>      <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>       >>>>>> Well Boinc is detecting SSE3 if it’s present and usable – but 
>>> one
>>>       >>>>>> called it “pni” instead of SSE3 !?!
>>>       >>>>> Not 'one' called it that, but Intel themselves.
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>>  From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE3
>>>       >>>>> "SSE3, Streaming SIMD Extensions 3, also known by its Intel 
>>> code name
>>>       >>>>> Prescott New Instructions (PNI)"
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>>
>>>       >>>>> -- Jord van der Elst.
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