Re: f@#$ing MMX emulator

Michael Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:57:23 -0400

| FPU intructions however, are not necessarily used that often, and having the
| odd FPU instruction can still be very useful.

It depends on whether you compile anything at all :-) Gcc's local register
allocation uses floating point to sort/pick the registers to allocate to local
registers.

| Oh, IMNSHO, putting MMX is userspace is going to make it even slower than in
| the kernel by up to two times. It could be a kernel modules, so no bloat and
| those who want it could use it.

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