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16 Nov 2024 09:21:50 EST (-0500)
  Re: POV and 3DNow! instruction set  
From: Nieminen Mika
Date: 3 Sep 1998 05:07:13
Message: <35ee4e31.0@news.povray.org>
Rik Ling <rli### [at] pipcomcom> wrote:
: Would POV benefit at all from the new SIMD floating point instructions
: available in the 3DNow! instruction set on the newest AMD K6 processors?

  Do you think that 32-bit floats have enough precision for raytracing?
(although I don't know if povray uses floats or doubles...)

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