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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] The SIMD debacle
From:       David Holm <dholm () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2003-09-30 19:35:40
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:21:26 -0400
Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:46, Jon Ellis wrote:
> > Can someone explain the sse / 3dnow! situation to me?
> > 
> > My understanding is that most modern intel and amd chips supprt sse, 
> > but only amd support 3dnow! Is this correct? Why would someone with a 
> > pentium 4 box have 3dnow in their use flags?
> 
> Pentium 3 - sse
> Pentium 4 - sse/sse2
> Athlon - 3dnow
> AthlonXP - 3dnow/sse

PPC74X0 - AltiVec
PPC970 - AltiVec

//David Holm

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