SSE128

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Manfred Nowak wrote:
>> AMD announces one further step in SIMD:
>>
>> http://developer.amd.com/articles.jsp?id=171&num=1
>>
>> -manfred
> 
>  From what I can tell it's vectorized 128-bit ops, allowing, say, 4 
> floats to be added to another 4 floats in one op. Didn't we have that 
> already in SSE3?  Is this just AMD's version of SSE3?  Anyone know 
> what's different?

It also supports operations on 128-bit floating point values, though I 
don't know if that's mentioned in the linked article.


Sean