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CWSDPMI r5 update available (Announce)

posted by marcov, 24.08.2008, 09:53

> > THX. I'm not going to do anythiong with sse but some bugfixes always
> > welcomed.
>
> It's the same bugfixes as r5 2002, AFAICT (which no one ever uses, they
> always stubbornly use r5 2000, dunno why).
>
> BTW, FreeBASIC now has "-fpu sse", so it's not as rare as you think. Even
> GCC does (or will eventually do better) produce SSE output.

FPC has something similar for years.

Also mmx/SSE use in the move (memcpy) procedure can matter. (see Delphi fastcode project, they have a nice excel sheet with benchmarking different implementations)

Complete thread:

• CWSDPMI r5 update available - rr, 22.08.2008, 16:08 (Announce)
  • CWSDPMI r5 update available - RayeR, 23.08.2008, 02:48
    • CWSDPMI r5 update available - Rugxulo, 23.08.2008, 17:36
      • CWSDPMI r5 update available - marcov, 24.08.2008, 09:53
        • CWSDPMI r5 update available - Rugxulo, 25.08.2008, 03:50
          • CWSDPMI r5 update available - marcov, 25.08.2008, 10:53
            • CWSDPMI r5 update available - Rugxulo, 25.08.2008, 22:56
              • CWSDPMI r5 update available - DOS386, 28.08.2008, 05:57