Re: Why ssse3?

Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02T22:56:45Z

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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
>
> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4

OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to
Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni". Too bad.

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