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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:04:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr
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Subject: Re: MMX programming
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr wrote:

>      Has someone developped tools to do some MMX programming (extensions to 
>      GAS for the new instructions / predefined libraries / examples / 
>      whatever ...) under FreeBSD ?
I seem to remember an effort to allow this, but the context swtich time
goes through the roof since swithcing into/out of MMX mide is very, very
expensive.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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