SSE & compilers

[Dan Kirkpatrick]

1. What do you know about SSE ? Apparently the p III and P 4 have extra 
hardware for fp work which is ignored by current compilers but can buy big 
factors in speed...
we can code in assembler for it pretty easily if the PIII prcocessors have 
it.  Comments?

2. Apparently there are several optimizing compilers out there (like 
portland) which do better than gcc.  Any suggestions?  Information on costs?

Thanks!
Dan


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Dan Kirkpatrick                   dkirk at physics.syr.edu
Computer Systems Manager
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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