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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 20:18:22 +0100 (CET)
From: InfraRED/Veres Tibor <infrared AT aurora-borealis DOT satimex DOT tvnet DOT hu>
To: Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat AT ees2 DOT oulu DOT fi>
Subject: Re: 3dnow in pgcc
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> "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.

I think 3dnow (and maybe even MMX) are too high level stuff.. that a
compiler could optimize for them.. only application,driver and library
writers could make their code use these things.. 

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