From 7e28708e1d622ca9a229e44f224e51d2c5d691a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lemire Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 09:18:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Making it clearer that this is a 64-bit library --- README.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 703a5ca8..524216fd 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ On a Skylake processor, the parsing speeds (in GB/s) of various processors on th ## Requirements -- We support platforms like Linux or macOS, as well as Windows through Visual Studio 2017 or later. +- We support 64-bit platforms like Linux or macOS, as well as Windows through Visual Studio 2017 or later. - A processor with - AVX2 (i.e., Intel processors starting with the Haswell microarchitecture released 2013 and AMD processors starting with the Zen microarchitecture released 2017), - or SSE 4.2 and CLMUL (i.e., Intel processors going back to Westmere released in 2010 or AMD processors starting with the Jaguar used in the PS4 and XBox One) @@ -301,9 +301,9 @@ make make test ``` -## Usage (CMake on Windows using Visual Studio) +## Usage (CMake on 64-bit Windows using Visual Studio) -We assume you have a common Windows PC with at least Visual Studio 2017 and an x64 processor with AVX2 support (2013 Intel Haswell or later) or SSE 4.2 + CLMUL (2010 Westmere or later). +We assume you have a common 64-bit Windows PC with at least Visual Studio 2017 and an x64 processor with AVX2 support (2013 Intel Haswell or later) or SSE 4.2 + CLMUL (2010 Westmere or later). - Grab the simdjson code from GitHub, e.g., by cloning it using [GitHub Desktop](https://desktop.github.com/). - Install [CMake](https://cmake.org/download/). When you install it, make sure to ask that `cmake` be made available from the command line. Please choose a recent version of cmake. @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ We assume you have a common Windows PC with at least Visual Studio 2017 and an x -## Usage (Using `vcpkg` on Windows, Linux and MacOS) +## Usage (Using `vcpkg` on 64-bit Windows, Linux and MacOS) [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) users on Windows, Linux and MacOS can download and install `simdjson` with one single command from their favorite shell.