Re: tlug: Sony vaio 505

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Scott Stone writes:

 > > I was just wondering, can Linux make use of the mmx specific features?
 > 
 > Well, it *knows* about them, but I'm not sure what it does with them...
 > ie, if you have an MMX CPU and you look at /proc/cpuinfo, it has 'mmx'
 > listed in the flags line.
 > 
Since gcc does not support the mmx commands yet, I doubt there is any
utilization of them in Linux. The only possibility might be some 
assembler code using mmx. The best feature about the mmx cpus is the
added first level cache anyway.  

Marcus

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