[XviD-devel] SSE2 on AMD64

Christoph Lampert chl at math.uni-bonn.de
Mon May 9 16:57:22 CEST 2005


On Mon, 9 May 2005, Martin Drab wrote:

> On Sun, 8 May 2005, Dark Sylinc wrote:
> 
> > Hi XviD:
> > Is it true? I've heard that SSE on AMD64 have xmm0
> > trough xmm15, instead of xmm7.
> > Can anyone confirm that? Because if it's true, we may
> 
> Yes, it is true.
> 
> > be able to use more registers to reduce possible
> > dependencies and improve speed.
> 
> Sure! :-)

Yes, but keep in mind that the additional registers are only available in 
true 64bit mode, not for 32bit OSes.

gruel



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