Subject: Re: Intel PIII SIMD instructions
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/18/2000 09:15:51
> Is it possible/likely that some linux program will show up using
> MMX features that someone will want to run under emulation?
MMX just reuses the FP registers. I'm going to assume you meant:
> Is it possible/likely that some linux program will show up using
> SSE features that someone will want to run under emulation?
It's possible, but I haven't heard of one yet; a more likely candidate
would be some sort of windows software using the SSE extensions which
would want to run under one form or another of emulation..
- Bill