1. Re: The next version of Euphoria (MMX)
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> >Also, if you use MMX in a Euphoria program, you would have to restore the
> >floating point stack in order to use atoms
>
> Umm.. why?
> Or do you mean [E]mpty[MM]X[S]tate ?
>
> Anyways, I once forgot to use emms before returning from a machine proc,and
> when I tried to print an atom I got "not a number" (or something like that).
> Quite an interesting effect (although it's of no use).
>
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Oh, yeah... that's it. What I mean is that EMMS is a rather expensive
instruction, so unless you are doing a lot of MMX calculations without any
floating point stuff in between, it's not worth it.
Jeff
