From: david.brown@hesbynett.no   
      
   On 19/10/2025 03:17, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:21:32 +0200, Terje Mathisen wrote:   
   >   
   >> MitchAlsup wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:20:49 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Short-vector SIMD was introduced along an entirely separate   
   >>>> evolutionary path, namely that of bringing DSP-style operations   
   >>>> into general-purpose CPUs.   
   >>>   
   >>> MMX was designed to kill off the plug in Modems.   
   >>   
   >> MMX was quite obviously (also) intended for short vectors of   
   >> typically 8 and 16-bit elements, it was the enabler for sw DVD   
   >> decoding. ZoranDVD was the first to properly handle 30 frames/second   
   >> with zero skips, it needed a PentiumMMX-200 to do so.   
   >   
   > I think the initial “killer app” for short-vector SIMD was very much   
   > video encoding/decoding, not audio encoding/decoding. Audio was   
   > already easy enough to manage with general-purpose CPUs of the 1990s.   
      
   Agreed.  But having SIMD made audio processing more efficient, which was   
   a nice bonus - especially if you wanted more than CD quality audio.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)