thanx for the suggestion dstruct.
i've exchanged a couple of emails with tim flohrer @ zplane (a nice person),
then forwarded our conversation to
support@cockos.com
he said that cockos should contact him if possible to discuss the issue.
please note that i'm not really pushing the issue in any way ("o.m.g. reaper is crashing fix it now!"), in fact i wouldn't care less, but i find this one interesting (cpuid checks, optimized code etc...)
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