Subject: Re: Intel PIII SIMD instructions
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Eric Lowe <elowe@myrile.madriver.k12.oh.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/19/2000 09:31:28
Hello,

> > 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:

I'm going to assume that in most cases, it isn't worth the
save/store overhead to be able to use MMX.  It seems to me that
if MMX is supported it needs to be thought out.  But I'm sure
you've already thought about it... :)

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Eric Lowe
Software Engineer, Systran Corporation
elowe@systran.com