Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 
> Sean-Paul Rees wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
>  > Is there a MMX enabled setiathome for us with non-3DNow! enhanced
>  > processors?
> 
> No, MMX is completely useless for this kind of stuff, because
> MMX does not support floating point operations.  Sorry.
> 
> However, I modified the FFT algorithm to optimize memory
> throughput, at the cost of memory footprint (it needs about
> 2 Mbyte more RAM).  The speed increase is not as impressive
> as with the 3DNow version, but it's still significant.
> Here are some numbers:

Thats a pretty big increase. I wish those seti folks would get a clue
and build new clients for it. I'm assuming your patches generate the
same results?

Sean


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