Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNOW
From: Robert Schrem (robert.schrem_AT_WiredMinds.de)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 21:16:02 EET
On Monday 18 February 2002 19:50, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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.
Why? I thought they were designed for just such tasks?
> 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.
You would also code all this stuff in assembler...
I think the GNU C compiler does not support MMX
and the like...
- Robert
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