From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 15 10:24:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18684 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18655 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua) Received: from Shevchenko.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00376; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:22:48 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <34BD1E95.F6503B72@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:22:46 +0200 From: Ruslan Shevchenko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Archie Cobbs CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does MMX mean? References: <199801142355.PAA05051@bubba.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Archie Cobbs wrote: > What, exactly, does MMX mean? > > Does it mean the processor has NEW instructions for DSP type operations? > Does it speed up EXISTING instructions? Integer or floating point (or both)? > it means adding operations under 4x4 (as I remember, or may be 8x8) matrix of floats. That's all. > Thanks, > -Archie > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com -- @= //RSSH mailto://Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA