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

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:16:20 +0200 CEST

"Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mat Hounsell wrote on Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:27:33 +1000 (EST):
> > 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.
> Which reminds me that it would be nice if it also worked on PPC 
> processors, which 
> means that having the C++ code around for the same algorithm would be 
> useful.

Yes, we definitely need to keep supporting portable code as well.

Bye,
   Axel.


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