From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8715d7b5f286043fd96cc422a954a626@plan9.bell-labs.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:23:02 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] grid computing -- high performance? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e7a6cc9c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri Sep 24 15:17:09 EDT 2004, newsham@lava.net wrote: > ... > Does the operating system have any support for SSE in the 386 port? > > On a slightly unrelated note, does 8c make any attempts to generate > code that is reasonable for the pentium-4? For example, 16-byte aligning > control flow targets? > > Tim N. We have versions of 8a and 8l which have MMX/SSE support but they are not installed because there is probably a compatibility issue with old object files. No, there are no optimisations for the P4 (or PIII, PII, Pentium Pro, Pentium or 486). --jim