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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:51:44 +0200
From:	Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
To:	beastium <beastium-list AT Desk DOT nl>
Subject:	bzip2-mx vs. bzip2-nomx (II) (and patch)
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Now the picture is clearer:

		bzip2-nomx	bzip2-mx	slowdown
pii		1.67		1.76		1.6%
pentium-mmx	1.37		1.59		14%
amdk6		2.27		2.67		15%
cyrix6x86mx	1.75		2.22		21%

intel rules :[]. I uploaded a patch against egcs-19980628 into
ftp.goof.com:/pub/pcg/test/ (but 0621 is faster ;), for people to play (and
hopefully improve), it adds these switches (among others):

-mmx		use mmx instructions, safe to mix fpu and mmx code
-mmx-only	use mmx instructions and assume there is no fpu around

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