From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 6 02:52:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA06781 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 02:52:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA06772 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 02:52:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA13761; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:51:40 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:51:39 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Eivind Eklund cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WTB: Pentium Pro 180 In-Reply-To: <199711061003.LAA03286@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > [Jordan K. Hubbard ] > > > ever consider a new P5 would be to play with MMX. Since P5 is near > > > > Which I'm still waiting to see a Unix application actually benefitting > > from. :) > > MMX is as far as I can tell usable for two things: > Fast, simple graphics effects (Photoshop filters and effects in the > demo scene) > Block copying (but I'm not certain this is faster than other types of > block copy) > > It can be used for very simple 3D routines; if you're doing advanced > things with your 3D (e.g, fractal mapping, good shading) you're out of > luck. I was once on a game programming team spending two weeks trying > to find _any_ place we could benefit from MMX - we were unable to find > any. Bah. Everybody knows the only benefit you get from a MMX processor is the doubled L1 cache. > > Eivind. > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions.