diff --git a/MinimumRequirements.md b/MinimumRequirements.md index a527e61d..14122ead 100644 --- a/MinimumRequirements.md +++ b/MinimumRequirements.md @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Each level differs in the set of x86 instructions that the compiler can include * GOAMD64=v1 (default): The baseline. Exclusively generates instructions that all 64-bit x86 processors can execute. * GOAMD64=v2: all v1 instructions, plus CMPXCHG16B, LAHF, SAHF, POPCNT, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSSE3. * GOAMD64=v3: all v2 instructions, plus AVX, AVX2, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, LZCNT, MOVBE, OSXSAVE. -* GOAMD64=v4: all v3 instructions, plus AVX512F, AVX512BW, AVX512CD, AVX512DQ, AVX512VL. +* GOAMD64=v4: all v3 instructions, plus AVX512F, AVX512BW, AVX512CD, AVX512DQ, AVX512VL, and VPBROADCASTB with a general-purpose register operand. Setting, for example, GOAMD64=v3, will allow the Go compiler to use AVX2 instructions in the generated binaries (which may improve performance in some cases); but these binaries will not run on older x86 processors that don't support AVX2.