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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: IBM/Cyrix PR200+
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According to Satoshi Asami:
> Speaking of which, can anyone with an *MX processor check the gus mmx
> extension PR (filed under "gnu", I think) and try and see if copying
> through the mmx registers instead of FP would be faster for some of
> the CPU's?

I don't expect it to be faster with the MMX registers because they're
shared with the FPU ones... (like the Intel MMX registers). I've not made
any test though.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #31: Sat Sep  6 21:58:17 CEST 1997