Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Chris" <> | Subject | Re: MMX bogomips fun | Date | 3 Feb 1997 00:46:31 GMT |
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Illuminati Primus <vermont@gate.net> wrote in article <Pine.A32.3.93.970202154823.37840B-100000@navajo.gate.net>... > > 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?
When cyrix will make a CPU that can switch from MMX to FPU in just a few clock cycles, there will soon be a MMX version of gcc.
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