Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Is it still just i686 optimized?
> Or are we targeting P4 optimizations _specifically_ now?
> And how is Athlon (which has a _signficant_ share) performance?
It's not supposed to be necessary.
The Athlon (especially the Athlon 64) does a lot of reordering of
instructions to get the best performance out of them. This means that
however you optimize, the Athlon will probably do something else...
James.
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