Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:40:16 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: hykel@yoda.eng.hou.compaq.com (Richard Hykel) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does MMX mean? Message-ID: <199801200140.RAA00387@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:38:07 CST." <m0xuL9E-000AwZC@yoda.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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It may be worthwhile to explore the MMX instruction set for network checksum algorithms or error correction algorithms. Cheers, Amancio > I have already replied to Archie, but perhaps the list might be > interested in this part also. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > According to the FAQ from Intel's developer website, > http://developer.intel.com/drg/mmx/Support/faq.htm, MMX(TM) > is not an acronym. They filed for a trade mark world wide, and > probably already received it in most cases. > > But to answer what you really appear to be looking for, MMX(TM) > is the trademarked name for the technology that is used to speed > up matrix math. There are new matrix math instructions and registers > available on processors with MMX(TM) technology. > > Check out http://developer.intel.com/drg/news/class3/sld031.htm > and search their website for 'MMX' and 'matrix math' > > The information that I found referenced integer operations only. > > It appears that << Archie Cobbs >> wrote: > > > > > > What, exactly, does MMX mean? > > > > Does it mean the processor has NEW instructions for DSP type operations? > > Does it speed up EXISTING instructions? Integer or floating point (or both)? > > > > Thanks, > > -Archie > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Hykel Compaq Computer Corporation > hykel@twisto.compaq.com > Disclamer: Opinions expressed are my own, not Compaq's. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
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