Re: Compiler support for Intel-MMX?

meyer <meyer@lps.u-psud.fr>
7 May 1998 17:04:38 -0400

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From: meyer <meyer@lps.u-psud.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 7 May 1998 17:04:38 -0400
Organization: LPS
References: 98-04-068 98-04-081 98-05-026
Keywords: 386, performance

> Michael Tiomkin wrote:
> > From 1996, Intel tried to persuade compiler vendors to start using
> > the "intrinsics" approach for MMX. The intrinsics are something
> > between the direct C support and inlined assembly: you have a set
> > of C "functions" that can be inlined into MMX (or other processor
> > extravaganza) instructions.


Coming back to the original (I hope) post about compilers supporting
MMX instructions, I want to remind you that there is the very neat
LCC-Win32 compiler by J. Navia. This compiler uses the intrinsics
approach mentioned above. It is freeware - so try it out


e-mail of J. Navia : jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr
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