On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:16:02 +0100, Robert Schrem wrote: > > 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?
It was designed for video, it only does integer maths. > > 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... It can't yet, it can't vectorise, though it may in the future. The intel compiler which is available for $0 can vectorise, and does a decent job. Though it is non-Free. - Steve
