[MEncoder-users] Re: Now mmx seg fault

[larrystotler at netscape.net]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org>

>Who told you that? My amd64 supports MMX just fine.

>From Wikipedia:

"Since SSE and SSE2 are generally faster than, and duplicate most of 
the features of, the traditional x87 instructions, MMX, and 3DNow!, the 
latter are redundant under AMD64."

"SSE2 replaces the x87 instruction set's IEEE 80-bit precision, with 
the choice of either IEEE 32-bit or 64-bit floating-point math"

There was an article about how they still support MMX, but it's through 
the use of SSEx instead of actually having MMX.  I can't find the link 
tho.  MMX is not as useful as SSE anyway.  I'm not sure what this means 
 from a programmer's point of view.  I would assume that the MMX calls 
are handled transparently, but I dunno.  I'm not a programmer.
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