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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Why ssse3?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 09:03:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aday7k5evxj.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705031052.31611.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Thu, 3 May 2007 10:52:31 +0200")

 > PNI (Prescott New Instructions) was the original engineering code name. Unfortunately
 > it was added too early before the marketing name was known and then it couldn't be 
 > changed anymore.

... and just to make things more fun, SSE4 is sometimes called Penryn
New Instructions -- PNI all over again.

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-03 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-02 22:41 Why ssse3? Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 22:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 22:56   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-03  2:28     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-03  8:52     ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-03  9:02       ` Avi Kivity
2007-05-03  9:07         ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-03 16:03       ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-05-02 22:47 ` Ismail Dönmez

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