Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNOW
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 20:50:32 EET
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:32:41 -0800, Bob Colwell wrote:
> "wacky sub-architectures?" I beg to differ. :-)
>
> There are really only 4, and I think I can argue them down to two, at
> least for Intel boxes.
Well, I think you can ignore MMX, it's not a lot of use for audio plugins.
There are also the AMD extensions, and various AMD chips support MMX
and/or SSE and/or 3DNow*, so you end up with a variety of instruction
combinations.
- Steve
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