On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Dan wrote:

> *shrug*
> 
> This is all moot now tho as you just ain't gonna be running OS X on a POWER 
> based system!  

Also, it is moot now that Apple has the infrastructure in place to use the GPU 
as a vector processor which is probably faster than Altivec and SSE combined.  
<http://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/snowleopard/opencl.html>

(also any article that talks about SSE in a P4 is from the dark ages. Intel has 
produced THREE generations of CPU's since then.)

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