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To: kash johal who wrote (93581)	2/16/2000 1:31:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	of 1574584

Kash, <Is that once software is optimized for the new SIMD instructions using a special compiler. Or just using a std. compiler without specific optimization.> I don't know. But if it is the former, I wouldn't be too concerned, since it seems the "VHS vs. Beta" war of instruction sets seems to be leaning towards Intel's favor. I hardly know of any software that brags about using the "Athlon New Instructions." (Remember that Athlon added some more 3DNow! instructions, and they were deemed a "match" for Intel's SSE.) As for the structure of Willamette's FPU, I guess I'll have to wait for the MPR article to see what it looks like and how it compares to Athlon. I doubt Willamette used the same brute-force strategy toward floating-point as Merced did. Tenchusatsu

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