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Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?



On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:21:09AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

> The PIII streaming MMX instructions were designed for realtime video. 
> Don't know if the gcc compiler supports them yet, or if any mpeg or

They're supported by binutils and you can use them in inline assembly,
but gcc has no support for generating MMX instructions.  PGCC does, but
it's likely that your code will need fine tuning before it will use them
effectively.

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