Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 15:30:09 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is there any point in MMX?
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bas Hamstra wrote:

> About MMX: why does one hear so little about it? Could there be any
> speedgain for my chess app using MMX? Aren't there a couple of extra
> registers, which the x86 needs so badly?

With MMX, floating point operations also speed up. IIRC there are 4 MMX
processors that work concurrently. So any floating point operations are
done much quicker than an identical Intel processor without MMX.

Prashant