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To: Process Boy who wrote (74517)	10/7/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Haim Barad	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572913

I'll give you an example. The Direct3D API (starting with DX6.1) has an optimized pipeline for PIII. It was almost completely written in C++ and does take advantage of SIMD. The 3D Winbench scores are based upon Direct3D performance. So the answer to your question is yes. (keep in mind that there also is an optimized AMD path written with 3DNOW instructions... although they had to do it in assembly) HOWEVER!!! The C++ compiler DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY use SIMD without the user declaring SIMD data structures (e.g. 4-wide Single Precision FP). Since the SPEC benchmark code (both INT and FP) can't be changed, then the "optimized" scores CAN'T BE USING SIMD. Haim