[mythtv-users] VIA C3 Deinterlacing and 3dnow

[Henk Poley]

> Van: Robert Kulagowski <rkulagowski at thrupoint.net>
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> > In the documentation though it said that if I check out
> > /proc/cpuinfo that I have mmx and 3dnow, does the C3 just  have a
> > trimmed down version of 3dnow?
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> Well, from the docs and a PDF I downloaded from the AMD website,
> 3dnow is supposed to have most of the SSE instructions.  However, I'm
> not a microcode guy, so if someone knows for a fact that either the
> C3 doesn't have all the instructions, or I'm misreading the AMD docs
> and you actually need 3dnow+ or whatever they call it I'll go ahead
> and update.

Yup 3DNow can do (more or less) the same things as SSE, since they have the
same purpose. But the instruction bytecode is not the same. That's
marketing...

btw, the C3 Nehehemiah does have SSE.

	Henk Poley <><