Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:21:33 -0600 | From | Thayne Harbaugh <> | Subject | Cyrix M2 |
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I remember a big discussion about MMX that happened not too long ago. The conclusion was that the penalty to switch between FP & MMX was too great for a true multitasking OS.
So now Cyrix has their new M2 (yet to be seen) that has L1 cache access as fast as the registers as well as L1 cache locking and a few other neat features. Does this have the same performance hit for switching as the Pentium or is it faster?
Just wondering . . .
-- Thayne Harbaugh President PLUG Provo Linux Users' Group http://www.plug.org
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