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Article #23407Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
From: aa158
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:00
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In article <36DF4F87.FFDEFF0C@cs.wisc.edu>, Andy Glew <glew@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > Prediction: within 5 years, a single instruction that performs a 4-vector > by 4x4-matrix multiply, of 32 bit FP numbers, will be as common as > vector FP and integer (MMX, KNI, 3DNow) are now. > > Probably less than 5 years, but I want to have a bit of slack. Can AltiVec (PowerPC G4) do this? How does its vector unit compare to the dual vector units of the Toshiba chip? Richard -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b75,e8b7abf312c36c04 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 110292,e8b7abf312c36c04 X-Google-Attributes: gid110292,public X-Google-Thread: 1024aa,e8b7abf312c36c04 X-Google-Attributes: gid1024aa,public X-Google-Thread: 105ad2,e8b7abf312c36c04 X-Google-Attributes: gid105ad2,public From: aa158@valleynet.on.ca Subject: Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced? Date: 1999/03/05 Message-ID: <7boqk2$n9j$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 451557237 References: <7bjr4a$cq2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36DDB3AB.378F5C87@igs.net> <7bkjm8$72f$1@news.ox.ac.uk> <36DF4F87.FFDEFF0C@cs.wisc.edu> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 132.225.5.10 Organization: n/a X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Mar 05 14:44:22 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.arch,intel.etc,comp.games.development.industry,comp.sys.intel X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)