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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Kashish King who wrote (26810)12/17/1997 11:35:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (1) of 1576614
 
Rod, <even if one could optimize for the K6 you would have to support separate binaries.> Please try to understand the following:

a) the separate binaries were always "supported", under different flavors like new (upgraded) DLLs and device drivers. You can install and uninstall drivers. Easily. People do this almost every time when installing new game or piece of other software. For your education, the typical "application" code is mostly a bunch of calls to theses DLLs and system drivers, nothing more.

b) there is no big need in special K6 optimization. You just DO NOT need to OPTIMIZE FOR PENTIUM, to avoid special FXCH additions and other tricks. And the K6 will perform "much" better on floating side. Remember, we are talking here about plus-minus 20% in performance difference to shut down your whinning about sluggish FPU performance of K6.

c) now try to think who's arguments are silly.
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