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David Jonsson wrote:

> This is far from trivial. The C syntax need to be abandoned if the optimization is to be transparent from the programmer, see SWAR http://shay.ecn.purdue.edu/~swar/
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> Another approach is to use a MACRO like addition to ordinary compilers. This is what Apple has done with AltiVec wich is more promising than MMX or KNI/SSI, http://developer.apple.com/hardware/altivec/model.html
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> How could INTEL help Cygnus? Where did you read that?

This is what I read:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/linuxintel990225.html

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> The instruction set for KNI is available at http://www.sandpile.org/ What more does a compilerbuilder need?
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> David
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