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To: Paul Engel who wrote (59773)	5/27/1999 2:54:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572719

Re: "Who is making such compilers? Will all software be recompiled for the K7 and delivered along with plain vanilla x86 software?" It is clear that if FPU applications were re-compiled to use the SIMD registers in the PIII they would realize a substantial performance boost as well! EP

To: Paul Engel who wrote (59773)	5/27/1999 3:08:00 AM
From: RDM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572719

Paul you may not familiar with Microsoft Visual C++ When you compile C code you may easily select the chip the code is optimized for. There are also blended optimizations for handling a variety of chips. The compiler may load multiple libraries that are called conditionally depending on chip type or machine configuration. Clearly there has to be a benefit from going to the trouble. In many programs that run for hours there is considerable work done to optimize the code to reduce execution time even a few percent. Competition is severe in the software business and your competition will to gain an advantage. I would hope that AMD would supply Microsoft the libraries as part of the K7 development. AMD is in the best position to develop this code. Not every program would use them. For sure.