From ffe3d490d406ffe516fc3d24186c85511a9a43dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sdong Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:25:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add an instruction about SSE in INSTALL.md Summary: As tittle. Test Plan: Not needed Reviewers: MarkCallaghan, ljin, yhchiang, igor Reviewed By: igor Subscribers: rven, leveldb Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D24231 --- INSTALL.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 8cf66e6ab24..607450f851d 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ There are few options when compiling RocksDB: * `make all` will compile our static library, and all our tools and unit tests. Our tools depend on gflags. You will need to have gflags installed to run `make all`. +* if Intel SSE instruction set is supported, set USE_SSE=" -msse -msse4.2 " to make sure +SSE4.2 is used to speed up CRC32 when calculating data checksum. + + ## Dependencies * You can link RocksDB with following compression libraries: