Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:38:02 -0500 (EST) From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does MMX mean? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980116223422.7031A-100000@kalypso.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <199801160146.RAA15220@bubble.didi.com>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: : * The normal integer and floating-point datapaths are, i believe, : * unaffected. : : The MMX registers are aliases of regular FP registers. (They did not : want to add any new registers or flags -- so the OS doesn't need to be : aware of new MMX chips and the applications can still use them.) So : it won't help if you want to do a lot of FP operations intermixed with : MMX operations. Is this true for the Pentium II as well? K.S.
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