"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.