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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (61552)6/12/1999 12:20:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) of 1575427
 
Tench,

Yes, but with the physical registers and the way the K7 is setup you really don't need the registers for 3d-now for almost anything. There are very few situations where you will run into problems due to 3dnow not having it's own register set.

Much like Intel's 8 128 bit registers don't *really* make much of a difference. The biggest problem faced by x86 software today is register starvation. Well 8 registers has been proven to pretty much be the bare minimum needed to do anything. Had Intel add 16 128 registers, well then. I can think of several things that would have benefitted greatly, but they didn't.

Regards,

Steve
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