On Monday 18 February 2002 19:50, Steve Harris wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:32:41 -0800, Bob Colwell wrote: > > "wacky sub-architectures?" I beg to differ. :-) > > > > There are really only 4, and I think I can argue them down to two, at > > least for Intel boxes. > > Well, I think you can ignore MMX, it's not a lot of use for audio plugins.
Why? I thought they were designed for just such tasks? > There are also the AMD extensions, and various AMD chips support MMX > and/or SSE and/or 3DNow*, so you end up with a variety of instruction > combinations. You would also code all this stuff in assembler... I think the GNU C compiler does not support MMX and the like... - Robert
