Re: performance idea for old computers

Patrick McManus <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:14:24 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.performance
Message-ID <1221484464.5714.7.camel@tng>
hi - what parts of the firefox code do you think would generate SIMD
operations and benefit from this, and on what compilers? 

imho the  best way to engage folks in a serious discussion of the pros
and cons would be with some benchmarks showing some area improving and
an analysis of why - or alternatively a specific proposal on what could
be coded differently to leverage things like mmx/sse.

-Patrick


On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 14:42 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> -for older computers..
> 
> Firefox should Have...
> MMX builds optimized.
> 
> - MMX is in many CPUs...
> 
> - MMX should be in the compiler parameters...
> 
> - MMX was introduced in 1997
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)
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