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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:01:13 +0200 (EET DST)
From: Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat AT ees2 DOT oulu DOT fi>
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On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, David Jonsson wrote:

><excerpt><smaller>I'm not on the list. Please consider adding 3dnow in
>pgcc.. I noticed you are planning MMX in the future.. You might also want

>Its not in the compiler. It is in the assembler, as.

"as" support is the first step. When as supports 3dnow, pgcc could
theoretically generate 3dnow opcodes and take advantage of it.
I don't know how easy that would to do, and if it would actually
be useful optimization.

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