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Originally Posted by ultim
Well, I was supporting VS2005 because there was no need to drop it. If it does not have proper support for the intrinsics we need (thereby stepping in the way of 64bit support), that'd be enough reason for me to drop it. But by looking at this page, VC++ 2005 does seem to have intrinsics support for SSE2. And if not, I'm okay to drop it. |
VC++2005 supports it but the code generation apparently has some minor issues, and MMX is worse off than SSE. Avery Lee has written about intrinsics in VC++ at some length, see for example:
http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=46
http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=301
http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=340