Ronald L. Parker wrote:
> 
> Actually, 3DNow could help POV-Ray in a few places.  3DNow is just
> floating point operations on more than one operand at a time, it's not
> hardware acceleration of triangle drawing as found on a video card.

That's not quite right. It's a SIMD architecture (Single Instruction,
Multiple, Data) that is similar to the MMX by Intel. It's right
that you can handle several floats at once, but with a limited
precision.

Markus

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