On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 06:17:53PM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote: > On Sep 28, 08 16:53:05 +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > On 28.09.2008 11:52, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > >> I'd bet against that :-). Core 2 has magnificent SSE performance indeed, > > >> but that's true for MMX just as well. > > > Well, Core2 (and AMD K10) got support for 128bit operations per clock, > > > whereas previous processors only supported 64bit at once, and took 2 > > > cycles for 128 bit operations. > > > MMX is just 64-bit, so it should't matter much there. > > Ah yes you're right. Somehow I thought it would execute mmx twice as > > fast as well - clearly that's not true. Should indeed be much closer on > > older cpus. > > OTOH pixman w/ SSE does have some severe rendering issues - read > bugzilla.novell.org, #426370.
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