Hi Mike,

-=> On 22 Mar 97  20:30:25 Mike Bilow said to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <=-

 >    New! Support for Intel MMX technology
 >    With support for the new Intel MMX technology, Watcom C/C++ 11.0

 JdBP> What a marvellous piece of puffery!  They sell the compiler
 JdBP> on the basis of all of this "new MMX technology" and make a
 JdBP> fortune 
 JdBP> I bet that compiler marketing people adore Intel for
 JdBP> inventing this MMX lark.  (-:

 MB> Let's see if it actually speeds up any real code.

What to MMX instructions do ?

I have asked here before and had replies like
'make your spreadsheet crash'
'fill Angdy Groves' coffers'
'nothing useful'

What I want to know is what effect they have on data?

Like, could I use them to perform set operations as part of database processing?
Or pattern matching?

Andrew




... We tortured the data until it confessed.
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR]