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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (61510)6/11/1999 4:36:00 PM
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<With 45 instructions, the expanded 3DNow instruction set will more than match the performance of the 71 instructions which Intel Corp. has recently added to its MMX instruction set, Meyer said.>

But does the K7 add more architected registers? Pentium III's SSE adds eight new 128-bit registers to the x86 architecture, a move that was described as "about time" by Microprocessor Report.

If not, then is Dirk saying that the "enhanced" 3DNow! doesn't need new registers in order to "more than match" the performance of SSE?

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