Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:49:54 -0500 (EST) | From | Illuminati Primus <> | Subject | Re: MMX bogomips fun |
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I wonder.. how fast would linux be if it was optimized for MMX? Will GCC support MMX optimizations sometime? I have been thinking it could probably speed up checksumming and other repetitive calculations.. Or maybe I'm misinformed?
On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Ryan Smith-Roberts wrote:
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