In fact the current version (1.12 and earlier) do not do this. That is the other change I just made which will release as 1.13 presently.
I think I should edit the Gentoo .ebuild and send it to you, before you do that. I just tried it on one of my machines, and while it works, it's not *quite* right IMO.
Fresh benchmarks! Get 'em while they're hot!
PowerBook 5300ce (117MHz PowerPC 603e): Best minter: ANSI Standard 1-pipe (156320 hashes/sec)
Athlon-XP 1600MHz: Best minter: AMD64/x86 MMX Standard 1x2-pipe (3263193 hashes/sec)
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