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Subject: Re: curiosity killed the cat... hi/lo bit C verses Assembly

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 14:47:27 07/20/03

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On July 18, 2003 at 13:23:59, Dann Corbit wrote:

>For MS VC++, the CPU options will never generate code that will not run on lower
>processors.
>
>For the Intel compiler, you can generate CPU specific binaries.
>
>When you pick a particular CPU with the MS compiler, it emits instructions with
>fewer cycles and better scheduling for the chip.  That is all.

Used to. Look up /arch:sse and /arch:sse2 options on MSDN.

-Matt



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