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On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:45, Tom Smith wrote: |
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> Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes |
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> up is... |
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> If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support on a Pentium II, will |
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> the program run slower than it otherwise would? (Some of the programs I |
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> have are compiled and then distributed to servers with different |
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> CPUs--P-IIs and P-IVs, mainly.) |
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If a program uses an instruction that the processor doesn't support, the |
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program will be sent SIGILL, the default action of which is to terminate |
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immediately. |
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