Don: > At the present time, SSE and x87 are the same speed in most cases (most > operations take just one cycle) -- except of course that you can do two > or four operations at once with SSE.
SSE-something also allow some other operations, sqrt, etc. Even with GCC I've seen some performance improvements using SSE-something instructions. I suggest people to start looking at AVX instructions too. Bye, bearophile
