akosf C37 performance observations thread

Ulrich Metzner
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RE: RE: AMD added SSE

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AMD added SSE with the athlon XP

My Athlon XP 1700+ shows as a T-Bird with CPU-Z. S38 appears not to work on it.

Maybe it's an Athlon 4 Mobile? This one is often recognized as an Athlon XP but isn't capable of SSE and is in reality a modernized Athlon Thunderbird.

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RE: My Athlon XP 1700+

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My Athlon XP 1700+ shows as a T-Bird with CPU-Z. S38 appears not to work on it.

Did you mean 1600+?

Ulrich Metzner
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How about optimizing the C37

How about optimizing the C37 (=plain MMX) further, as the SSE-version (S39X) also? My trusty old Athlon Thunderbird (and probably a bunch of other processors out there also) would be very thankful, as it already is for the C37-version :D

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RE: RE: My Athlon XP

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My Athlon XP 1700+ shows as a T-Bird with CPU-Z. S38 appears not to work on it.

Did you mean 1600+?

No.

I run 4 systems:
Athlon 1333mhz
AMD XP 1600+
AMD XP 1700+
AMD XP 2600+

The 1600 and 2600 both are SSE capable, but the Athlon and 1700 are not.

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Akos Fekete
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RE: How about optimizing

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How about optimizing the C37 (=plain MMX) further, as the SSE-version (S39X) also? My trusty old Athlon Thunderbird (and probably a bunch of other processors out there also) would be very thankful, as it already is for the C37-version :D

C40 will be the next. Is it ok?
But don't rely on big improvement. SSE is a very strong weapon.
Perhaps 3DNow! would be interesting. MMX doesn't play...

Future plans:
C40 (387 compatible) -> S40 (SSE compatible) -> S240 (SSE2 compatible)

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RE: RE: How about

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How about optimizing the C37 (=plain MMX) further, as the SSE-version (S39X) also? My trusty old Athlon Thunderbird (and probably a bunch of other processors out there also) would be very thankful, as it already is for the C37-version :D

C40 will be the next. Is it ok?
But don't rely on big improvement. SSE is a very strong weapon.
Perhaps 3DNow! would be interesting. MMX doesn't play...

Future plans:
C40 (387 compatible) -> S40 (SSE compatible) -> S240 (SSE2 compatible)

Both my non-SSE systems (Athlon and XP 1700) support 3DNow! so this would be great for me if it works!

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Akos Fekete
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RE: RE: C40 (387

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C40 (387 compatible) -> S40 (SSE compatible) -> S240 (SSE2 compatible)
Both my non-SSE systems (Athlon and XP 1700) support 3DNow! so this would be great for me if it works!

Well, then I should do an add-in.
C40 (387 compatible) -> D40 (3DNow! compatible) -> S40 (SSE compatible) -> S240 (SSE2 compatible)

I'm looking forward to trying out the new official application. Both will use the same algorithm. Which will be faster? Cxx vs. new official?

The Sxx codes use different method, it will be the next suggestion to Bruce.
... and the amazing sin/cos interpolator :-)

Ulrich Metzner
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RE: Well, then I should do

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Well, then I should do an add-in.
C40 (387 compatible) -> D40 (3DNow! compatible) -> S40 (SSE compatible) -> S240 (SSE2 compatible)

My trusty ol'Athlon will totally go nuts then :D

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RE: RE: RE: C40 (387

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C40 (387 compatible) -> S40 (SSE compatible) -> S240 (SSE2 compatible)
Both my non-SSE systems (Athlon and XP 1700) support 3DNow! so this would be great for me if it works!

Well, then I should do an add-in.
C40 (387 compatible) -> D40 (3DNow! compatible) -> S40 (SSE compatible) -> S240 (SSE2 compatible)

I'm looking forward to trying out the new official application. Both will use the same algorithm. Which will be faster? Cxx vs. new official?

The Sxx codes use different method, it will be the next suggestion to Bruce.
... and the amazing sin/cos interpolator :-)

Do you expect D40 or S40 to be faster, or is it too soon to say? (My Athlon XP supports both 3DNow! and SSE, but not SSE2...)

Akos Fekete
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RE: Do you expect D40 or

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Do you expect D40 or S40 to be faster, or is it too soon to say? (My Athlon XP supports both 3DNow! and SSE, but not SSE2...)

It isn't question. D40 will be much slower.
3DNow! handles just 16 numbers againts 32 numbers of SSE.
It means that I won't be able to do overlapping under 3DNow!
The goal of D40 is doing a faster code than C40 for older AMD processors.

Edit: But a good news, I like 3DNow! :-)

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