On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 08:21:15AM +0200, Petri Holopainen wrote:
>So this "128-bit 1 Gigaflops supercomputer" is just a load of
>Apple marketing propaganda (yeah, Intel does this crap too, remember
>"more vibrant colors" with MMX and "enhanced Internet experience"
>with SSE...).
Believe me, MMX can be quite useful, in some specialized situations
(though perhaps not with everything...) I'm optimizing the reference
MPEG-1/MPEG-2 decoder now, and it helps about 20% for just a few,
very intense routines.
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