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To: Win Smith who wrote (46712)7/9/2001 1:56:37 PM
From: fyodor_ of 275872
 
Win: That was Chris Rhinehart, pointing out the somewhat obvious primary flaw in Intel's "Backward compatibility doesn't matter- just recompile" argument for the P4.

I think you are missing the issue here. You can get much more out of optimizing the 3D (DirectX / OpenGL) driver for SIMD than from optimizing the "game". The game side of things can benefit heavily from the use of prefetching instructions, however.

-fyo
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