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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: MMX Optimizations for KImageEffect
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-04-24 13:55:02
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On Thursday 24 April 2003 15:25, Richard Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:01:51AM +0200, Klaus Niederkrueger wrote:
> > The only thing, I wanted to say, was that since gcc-3.1 there are macros
> > defined for MMX, SSE, 3DNow etc., which make the code really much more
> > readable (in contrast to inline assembly at least).
>
> Unfortunately we have no guarantee people are using gcc at all, let
> alone a particular version. IIRC the Intel compiler also suppports the
> inline assembly code, but I doubt it supports these macros.

It's optional code anyway, since it is processor specific.

Cheers,
Waldo
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