From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 29 11:58:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02196 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 11:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02149 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 11:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA28605 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 20:57:10 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id UAA16475 for hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 May 1997 20:57:00 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id TAA16098; Thu, 29 May 1997 19:04:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970529190405.50052@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 19:04:05 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pentium II released References: <882564A6.0037ED8A.00@IWND1.infoworld.com> <3.0.1.32.19970529080242.006b44ec@lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970529080242.006b44ec@lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Thu, May 29, 1997 at 08:02:42AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3332 Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Brett Glass: > Something to test: would an MMX copy be faster than the FP copy? The K6 is > claimed to have particularly fast transfers when used for MMX. That would be nice indeed. I don't much about MMX, I got the doc. from AMD but still haven't got time to read it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #10: Fri May 23 22:47:39 CEST 1997