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The end of an era as Linux 7.5 purges the last 30-year-old Intel MMX optimizations from Pentium age
# title from source: tomshardware.com
Linux developers are preparing to remove the kernel’s last remaining code optimized for Intel’s 30-year-old MMX instruction set. The change would make MMX support irrelevant in the Linux kernel.
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- 2254
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- ai
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- 26 magnitude=15 sources=25 novelty=55 question=15
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- 8
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- 1
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- 1
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- Linux, Intel, MMX
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- tomshardware.com
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| 1 | tomshardware.com | The end of an era as Linux 7.5 purges the last 30-year-old Intel MMX optimizations from Pentium age | https://tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-end-of-an-era-as-linux-7-5-purges-the-last-30-year-old-intel-mmx-optimizations-from-pentium-age-open-source-os-retires-ancient-1997-pentium-instructions-to-streamline-code |