Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 11:25:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Wilmer van der Gaast <lintux AT dds DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: Is there any point in MMX?
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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

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