Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/04/21:45:35
> MMX adds ~50 instructions to the processor to 'help' you with multimedia
> n stuff. Go to iNTEL to read more on it. Of course your programs have to
> be compiled using MMX instructions for the thingie to work :)
More importantly (to the general computing population), the MMX Pentiums
also have a larger code cache and a deep pipe line (6 stages instead of
5, but don't quote me on that...). I beleive that the caches are now
16k, rather than only 8k.
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