Re: RENDER ext. & hardware acceleration, libart integration

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> 24 Aug 2002 21:21:34 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.xfree86.render
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>> If MMX is already being used in Render or has already tried, I'm sorry to
>> imply that no one has thought of this before.

KP> It has been tried with no effect on performance.

Curious.  Do you understand why?

I would expect a 64-bit MMX read or a 128-bit SSE read from write-com-
bining memory to do something smarter to the PCI bus than 2 or 4
32-bit reads.

                                        Juliusz