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To: Charles R who wrote (19200)11/15/2000 1:11:26 PM
From: jcholewaRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
> <Games would have no difference from PIII>
> I am certain time will prove you wrong on this one. I think the amount of effort going into SSE2
> optimizations is being underestimated.

If you optimized 100% of the double precision floating point code in current 3D games, you would get nearly a 0% boost in performance. This isn't just my opinion. It's more of a logical deduction derived from the fact that there is no such code in 3D games (except for really rare circumstances).

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-JC