pixman with and without SSE2 benchmarks?

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 02:52:45 PDT 2008


> I'd bet against that :-). Core 2 has magnificent SSE performance indeed,
> but that's true for MMX just as well.
Well, Core2 (and AMD K10) got support for 128bit operations per clock,
whereas previous processors only supported 64bit at once, and took 2
cycles for 128 bit operations.
MMX is just 64-bit, so it should't matter much there.

Clemens



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