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FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 (Announce)

posted by FFK , 23.07.2008, 02:14

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> BTW, I meant to mention, here's an (old) Linux-only (??) MMX emulation
> library. Maybe you can take a look.
>
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Sylvain.Pion/progs/mmx-emu/

Yes but if i take the QEMU case, the emulated MMX is MUCH slower than an ordinary 386 or 486 rendering assembler code.
BTW the DUGL Plus SB16 driver require only a 486.

> BTW, ever considered SSE2?

SSE and SSE2 are very useful on 3D and matrix computation, Any one interested developing a 3D engine with DUGL ?

> No, I'm not personally in favor of requiring MMX (or newer) for
> everything.

Yes not every thing but MMX increase highly the rendering speed with a software renderer. for example we can ADD 2 int32 on a single asm instruction.
On the case of DUGL it requires a VESA 2.0 too, which appeared nearly on the same period as MMX, 1996-97.

Complete thread:

• FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - marcov, 14.07.2008, 13:03 (Announce)
  • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 17.07.2008, 09:51
    • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 17.07.2008, 22:16
    • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - marcov, 18.07.2008, 11:38
      • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 18.07.2008, 13:26
      • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Rugxulo, 18.07.2008, 13:52
        • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - marcov, 18.07.2008, 13:59
          • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Rugxulo, 19.07.2008, 20:23
          • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - FFK, 22.07.2008, 02:56
            • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Rugxulo, 23.07.2008, 00:28
              • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - FFK, 23.07.2008, 02:14
            • DUGL licensing. - marcov, 23.07.2008, 20:30
              • DUGL licensing. - FFK, 24.07.2008, 06:32
      • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 18.07.2008, 23:42
        • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 19.07.2008, 12:51
          • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - marcov, 21.07.2008, 12:58
            • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 21.07.2008, 15:47
              • FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 fun thing - marcov, 23.07.2008, 23:17