> This is something of a chicken and egg problem... if there's no code
> out there which wants to use the SSE extensions, the folks writing the
> kernel code don't have any reason to implement the context switch code
> needed for it when everyone's breathing down their neck for other
> features like kernel threads and multiprocessor support ;-)

The folks writing the context-switch fp-save now have a reason. ;-)
Fast mp3 encoding using x86 assembler for the core routines.

        /usr/pkgsrc/audio/gogo/work/gogo235/fftsse.nas

I assume that under current kernels that one has to be careful to only
run one instance of "gogo" at a time (and hope that no other program
was clever enough to use SSE???

-wolfgang
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