From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 26 14:43:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08006 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:43:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08001 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.4/8.7.3) id OAA02955; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:41:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:41:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702262241.OAA02955@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> To: mark@quickweb.com CC: Brett_Glass_at_POST-IW1@infoworld.com, bde@zeta.org.au, jin@george.lbl.gov, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de In-reply-to: (message from Mark Mayo on Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:30:36 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: Memory speed of P6-200 (256k) From: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * The problem is that (AFAIK) there aren't any C compilers iwth MMX support * yet.. Even the big guys (Watcom and Microsoft) only have inline assembler * support. Of course, if this stuff is being coded in assembler, you're on * your way! The routines are in support.s so they will be coded in assembly language. Of course, someone has to add them to gas first. :) * I'll be getting a MMX machine at school soon to play with (working on * vector stuff - going to prove that Intel MMX is still slower than the * native vectoring operations of the PPC and Alpha) so I can test any code * that shows up. Cool! Satoshi