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userbinator
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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
It makes it easier to save and restore state when it's basically the same registers used differently.
Sesse__
47 days ago
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Yes. Which matters a lot when you cannot just update OS kernels willy-nilly (most people did not have Internet connectivity, Windows Update did not exist before Windows 98).
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