Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> First understand there are Instruction Set Architectures (ISA), which
> are how the processor actually handles instructions, and then there are
> "extensions" to the ISA. MMX, 3DNow! and SSE are "extensions." i486,
> i586, i686 and RISC86 are ISAs.
So, the short version is this:
SSE is an instruction set extension layered over MMX. Gotcha. Much of
the rest of what you'd said was already in the back of my brain
somewhere, but I'd never run across SSE before, as far as I recall.
Thanks.
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