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To: fyodor_ who wrote (20303)	11/23/2000 1:13:09 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

> <JC: Don't call it "legacy". Call it "mainstream". Calling it "legacy" makes it sound like it's "on the way out".> > Yes, and I believe that to be the case. x87 in performance situations will be very limited in the coming years. Sure, > the change isn't going to take place quickly, so you have a good point (of course), but I really do think SIMD is the > way to go (it certainly works wonders for my type of code ;)). You're missing the point: Several hardware sites and magazines and soforth are branding everything that performs poorly on the P4 as "legacy". This decriptive word has become too vague to really be useful in conversation anymore. > That thing better have SSE and hardware prefetching. ;p If it doesn't, I'll join you up in arms. ;) -JC EDIT Dean Kent of Real World Technologies actually made me aware that "legacy" doesn't even mean what you think it does in the first place. Observe: >>>>> >From Webopaedia... "An application in which a company or organization has already invested considerable time and money. Typically, legacy applications are database nagement [sic] systems (DBMSs) running on mainframe or minicomputer. An important feature of new software products is the ability to work with a company's legacy applications, or at least be able to impor [sic] data from them." When I use the term 'legacy apps', I mean ones that have are basically integrated into the 'culture' of the PC world - such as Word, Excel, Photoshop, etc. It doesn't mean they are no longer useful.. in fact, it means quite the opposite... :-). <<<<<