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To: Saturn V who wrote (85265)	7/11/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: kapkan4u	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<Saturn V - re: SSE instructions can prefetch data, allowing the Pentium III to outperform the K-7 on code compiled for Pentium III. It a similar fashion on floating point benchmarks the Pentium III can execute four floating instructions at the same time. You are going to assert that 3D Now can do likewise. But 3d Now requires assembly language coding, which most programmers are not willing to perform. The Intel compiler for Pentium III will allow execution of multiple floating point instructions, without the need for assembly language coding. Thus on benchmarks recompliled for SSE , the Pentium III will outperform the K-7 under most benchmarks.> Thank you. My initial assessment of your understanding was accurate. The latest Intel compiler ia32 4.0 DOES NOT generate prefetch SSE instructions. It DOES NOT have a vectorizing ability to combine four floating-point instructions into a single SSE instruction. Kap.