[rescue] Perverse Question

[Frank Van Damme]

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 15:01, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Also, many MP3 programs use hand optimized intel assembly (or they used
> to back when I was doing Mp3s on a 486).  It might be that such a thing
> is needed to make the sparcs work well.  Finally, it might be that Intel
> has an instruction that helps that sparcs don't.

They do, but not an 486 :-)

Think mmx...

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