What do you guys thing about the P4

Drew Hess dhess at bothan.net
Wed Apr 11 15:37:23 PDT 2001


On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> > CVS gcc can generate SSE and SSE2 code instead of x87 code with -msse and
> > -msse2.
> 
> ... but does it vectorize? If not, it's only getting some of the
> benefit.


Not the -msse or -msse2 modes, no.  But I'm happy when my compiler gives
me a 10% speedup just for throwing a switch, regardless.


-dwh-







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