From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Nov 9 15:42:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA15107 for smp-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 15:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15087; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 15:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA12032; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:42:03 -0700 (MST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA06582; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:42:01 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:42:01 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711092342.QAA06582@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chuck Robey Cc: "John S. Dyson" , Nate Williams , gpalmer@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best processor? In-Reply-To: References: <199711092159.QAA27125@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey writes: > I can't remember where I read it (because I read a protected mode list > also, and game producers comment on this a lot) but I'd read where the MMX > instructions are not proving to be any real help there. I could see this easily. Many 'high-end' programs are attempting to take advantage of the FPU for some of the work, and MMX makes using the FPU too expensive, so they trade-off MMX instructions for FPU instructions, so in the end it's a wash. Nate