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SubjectRe: MMX bogomips fun

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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> Interesting. My roommate's Pentium 200 MMX has a bogomips rating of
> 398.95. I guess they really did revamp the branch prediction logic.
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