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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@cor...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:41:00 -0400

isn't mmx much faster tha x87 instructions these days?
iirc, the latest intel chips can execute an mmx
instruction in a single clock.

- erik

On Sat Apr 28 22:39:30 EDT 2007, joelcsalomon@gma... wrote:
> On 4/28/07, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@ter...> wrote:
> > This discussion made me curious whether good high-level languages are being developed for scientific computing.
> 
> On the D newsgroups, there was some discussion of their (super
> powerful but also incredibly easy -- and buzzword compliant!) template
> mechanism being used to generate near optimal x87 code for linear
> algebra stuff.
> 
> --Joel