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Re: Use MMX or SSE for Apple II
- Subject: Re: Use MMX or SSE for Apple II
- From: "mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 2006 19:42:11 -0800
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Bryan Parkoff wrote:
> Do you have thought to emulate video? Byte by Byte sequence can be
> slow. Put 7 bytes into register and process them in parallel using MMX or
> SSE of x86. It may speed up. It helps when emulated MPU is in process in
> serial and then in turn to process video in parallel. What do you think?
I think it's a better approach to use library routines to do video
blitting. Most of the time such libraries will have an optimised
version for the current architecture, be that x86, x86_64 etc.
Matt