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To: Paul Engel who wrote (50012)	2/18/1999 10:11:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570691

Re: '91% Improvement with KNI - Specific Filters for Adobe Photoshop 5.2" Wow, a significant improvement on a couple SPECIFIC FILTERS! I'm sure glad Intel spent all that money developing SSE! Kevin

To: Paul Engel who wrote (50012)	2/18/1999 11:54:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570691

Paul, 45% Improvement with KNI - Dragon Naturally Speaking 52% Improvement with KNI - Net SHow Encoder 91% Improvement with KNI - Specific Filters for Adobe Photoshop 5.2 1. Intel offers company to help optimize code. 2. Company agrees. 3. Intel's crack team of software engineers reviews the code and finds ways to speed it up by 25%. 4. KNI optimizations are thrown in. This adds an additional 10%. 5. Many specific tests are run until a really good one is found. 6. Intel declares that KNI has sped up the code by 60%. Do you remember when a "DEC MIP" was 500,000 instructions per second? Scumbria