Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:59:18 +0300 (EEST) | From | <> | Subject | Re: A question about MMX. |
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Thank you all who have responded my question.
Have a nice day!
/me
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, > > ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are > > used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.). > > In almost all cases - no. The MMX instructions are mostly not useful. A few > graphics operations benefit from them such as mpeg players but that is about > it. > > On the AMD and Cyrix machines 3Dnow is used extensively by Mesa (3D) and by > many of the mp3 players. The winchip and athlon kernels also use mmx for > block copies but this isnt a win in the pentium case. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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