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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:58:32 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM/Cyrix PR200+
Message-ID:  <19970912075832.59214@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199709120431.VAA28321@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 09:31:50PM -0700
References:  <19970911221642.45617@keltia.freenix.fr> <199709120431.VAA28321@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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According to Satoshi Asami:
> Speaking of which, can anyone with an *MX processor check the gus mmx
> extension PR (filed under "gnu", I think) and try and see if copying
> through the mmx registers instead of FP would be faster for some of
> the CPU's?

I don't expect it to be faster with the MMX registers because they're
shared with the FPU ones... (like the Intel MMX registers). I've not made
any test though.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #31: Sat Sep  6 21:58:17 CEST 1997



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