POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Radiosity Status: Giving Up... : Re: Radiosity Status: Giving Up... Server Time
29 Jul 2024 06:28:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity Status: Giving Up...  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 31 Dec 2008 12:15:44
Message: <495ba8c0@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   If you are only going to use SSE as a direct substitute for the FPU,
> I assume that would be possible, but you probably won't get any significant
> speed benefit (perhaps even the contrary). In order to truely get benefit
> from SSE, you need to vectorize the calculations so that you can calculate
> many things in parallel. This is extremely hard, if not impossible for a
> compiler to do with random C/C++ code.

Warp, could you stop theorizing and actually *use* the information already 
out there, supplied by Intel and plenty of other sources? SSE != SIMD

	Thorsten


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.