[PD-dev] pdp's mmx support

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Mon Oct 29 20:10:47 CET 2007


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> Well, AFAIK, there is no further development on MMX, while there is with 

there is: it is called SSE

> SSE.  And it seems that SSE is meant to replace MMX, instead of 
> complement it.  Plus if IIRC, MMX has some serious drawbacks to it.  It 

i don't know of any "drawbacks" of MMX.

> seems to be something like SSE v0 ;)

as said above: it is (imho)

still i don not see any "deprecation" in this.
afaik, every processor that supports SSE3 (or whatever is current) also 
supports MMX.
i have never read anything like "it seems you are running MMX; please 
consider upgrading to SSE2" to the like

mfg.asdr
IOhannes




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