Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:44:35 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rasmus Bøg Hansen <> | Subject | Re: A question about MMX. |
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 lk@aniela.eu.org wrote:
> I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, > ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are > used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.).
I _think_ some MMX is used if you configure the kernel for an MMX-enabled CPU type, but not sure. But as MMX is mainly an extended floating point instruction set, you will not have much use for it on a server as you describe.
Rasmus
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