MMX Throughout The Years

[swaaye]

I was googling and I found this fascinating page about the performance of various Intel chips from the author of Virtualdub....

http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=21

I'm running into all sorts of talk about how SSE2 is not the thing to use on the Pentium M. Apparently it can be if the programmer optimizes for how SSE2 operates on Pentium M, but using P4 SSE2 code is not good at all for PM.