Re: MASM Expert needed immediately

Betov wrote:
f0dder wrote:

Then, write an Assembler that beats RosAsm speed with SSE.

Umm, I must admit I fail to see how SSE would speed up an assembler... the
use of floating-point calculations there is pretty limited.

And, for your information, 100% of what i write works on the
older "Windows able PCs".

You don't deal with audio or graphics programming, do you?

Instead of saying stupidities, ask yourself the reasons why,
after so many years of development, Intel prefered to implement
the SSE joke, rather than making the Strings Intructions faster
(and why AMD did it).

I wouldn't mind seing decently implemented string instructions, LOOP, et
cetera. And I do think it's silly those instructions perform so abysmally.
But even so, getting a think like LOOP down to the same performance a
dec+jnz gives NOWHERE the same amount of speed boost as SSE (or MMX, for
that matter) can give you.

Of course, MMX and SSE aren't "general-purpose" like the ALU instructions,
but you could argue that x87 FPU should be dropped as well, since those
instructions can be performed with the ALU as well...


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