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SubjectRe: AMD optimizations?
"Gregory P. Smith" wrote:
> Not to mention that it requires saving the floating point register's to
> use MMX doesn't it?

The K6 at least assists in this by raising an interrupt if a process
accesses special registers one or more task switches. Special registers
being MMX, FPU, and possibly 3Dnow registers.

It also sports SYSCALL and SYSRET instructions; I wonder if they would
provide any speed gain if used with Linux or compatibility syscalls.

Jeff




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