[openbeos] Re: app_server: MMX/SSE help wanted

For doing the hard work of developing the app server, I will congratulate and
thank you. As your doing it, how you achieve your goals is your choice.

(Scott was right.) I was refering to the higher level drawing control
algoritms, these will specify your real general peformance. Suprising the next
speed bottleneck will be the font/glyph engine. Then your compositing, blending
and drawing algorithms.

My employer has developed a renderer that provides quality demanding graphics
fast. They use this in their packaged software and it receives excelent
reviews. Its speed is from its algorithms. Probablely from the fact it was
developed to render eight times the pixels needed but at the same speed.


By all means hand code assembler for MMX. But if Intel/AMD etc are going dual
core then multithreading will give you better speed, than MMX could.


At the same time don't rule out the other end of the market like VIA's Eden.
These low cost, low electricity but good peformance platforms will be important
in the commercial and "developing" (i.e. poorer) world. Longhorn wont run on
these. http://www.via.com.tw/en/Products/eden.jsp


BTW, I have an AMD Athalon XP, and using the BeBits XP Patch and BeOS-Mini Boot
Disk to install, I have a function fast stable BeOS 5.0 PE install. (I only had
dialup so Max etc was not practicle.)



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