> dzonatas@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I don't see how Altivec has a future. Why do you say that? Have you looked at what two of the game consoles have? They both have VMX (aka AltiVec). I see VMX having more of a future than say IA64. I don't understand why you are putting down one of the best documented instruction set (and best documented language extensions to the C/C++ language). Thanks, Andrew Pinski PS I might be a little biased since I work at Sony on the toolchain, mostly relating to PowerPC work
