Subject: Re: Quick! Everyone go look at the Apple web site
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/21/2000 12:38:55
On 21 Jul 2000, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> <wrstuden@zembu.com> (Bill Studenmund) writes:
>
> > Apple has patches to gcc to support Altivec. I'm not sure if they've made
> > it out yet or not.
> >
>
> What kind of "support"? Making effective use of superword-level
> parallelism in compilers is far from being a solved problem...
Rudimentary assembler support I believe, and knowledge that those
registers exist. I'm not sure if there's much else.
Take care,
Bill