MMX??

[Marc Lehmann]

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 05:45:33PM -0500, John Sanabria <jo-sanab@uniandes.edu.co> wrote:
> I want to know if currently the gcc optimize code in order to take advantage of
> the features of MMX processor.

No, not yet. The only compiler I know of that does this is pgcc, and
there it is very experimental, not being updated since a year, only only
marginally faster (a few %).

There are experimental patches to gcc that are similar.

Good support for MMX and SIMD-type instructions in gcc is expected in
about a year (nothing definitve yet, though).

I would have given katmai insns a try (much easier to sanely use than mmx)
if I had a p-ii machine ;()

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