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Illuminati Primus <vermont@gate.net> wrote in article
<Pine.A32.3.93.970202154823.37840B-100000@navajo.gate.net>...
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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?

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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