At 3:23 PM -0400 7/21/00, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
><wrstuden@zembu.com> (Bill Studenmund) writes:
>
> > Apple has patches to gcc to support Altivec. I'm not sure if they've made
> > it out yet or not.
> >
>
>What kind of "support"? Making effective use of superword-level
>parallelism in compilers is far from being a solved problem...

I assume what you mean having the compiler automatically figure out 
when it can make use of altivec for ordinary programs.  I'd be happy 
with it just having assembly support.


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