Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 11:25:34 +0100 (CET) From: Wilmer van der Gaast <lintux AT dds DOT nl> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Is there any point in MMX? In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001091528400.570-100000@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001091124400.3080-100000@syscon.minilinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Prashant TR wrote: > 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. MMX is only for integers, but 3Dnow! and ISSE do support floating point numbers --------- Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl) ICQ 55707076