Antonio Gallardo said: [snip] >> The version of the 2.5.70 kernel with MMX seemed to be sort of sluggish. > > Not at all. And not always. Remeber that in order to use new instructionsm > there must be a compiler that take advanatage of the new instruction set. > Call it MMX, SSE, SSE2, etc. > > The 585 family does not have the new instruction set called SSE. This is > the diference. PII's don't have SSE. That is the difference between a PII and a PIII. And by extension, P-Pro's don't have SSE or MMX. -- William Hooper
