Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:39:18 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jeffrey Hundstad <> | Subject | Re: MMX emulator ? |
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On 17 Jun, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >> I don't think the MMX emulator would exclude the programmer from >> checking the capabilities of the CPU and deciding NOT to use the >> emulator. This way people who want to write MMX enabled code get >> their way, people who want performance on an MMX and non-MMX machine >> get their way and "lazy programmers" get their way, it doesn't force >> people to do anything they don't want to do. ...and you NEVER get a >> program that says it works only on an MMX machine which will decrease >> the ``wine'' factor from users. > > Ok: So if you are lazy programmer, write nice, new library to do MMX > emulation for yourself. (It probably can be done in userspace). If you > want max performance, you might want to do it in kernel. We'll be glad > to talk about it when it is ready.
Agreed.
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