From:	nikki AT gameboutique DOT co (nikki)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Loop unrolling: Don't bother
Date:	4 Mar 1997 10:43:21 GMT
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> MMX is MultiMedia eXtensions in the new range of Pentium processors. 
> Supposed to make any graphics intensive software (including games) go a
> whole lot faster.  But I'm not sure how this will affect users of non-MMX
> processors.  Will MMX code run on the lower processors?  Or will
> programmers have to write two sets of code, MMX-enabled and MMX-disabled?

you'd need something equivalent to the fpu emulator to run it ;(
basically mmx would run slower on non mmx machines and hence won't be much
use for a few years to come until enough of the market has them.
the speed increase isn't so great from what i've seen though, there are problems
with caching writes or something as i recall.

regards,
nik


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Graham Tootell           
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