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On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Tuukka Toivonen 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.

Well, if it speeds up floating (or even better - complex) point matrices
multiplying it would be very, very usefull. That's what I am doing most of the
time.

Regards,

Jacek