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what gave the pentium mmx the big speed boost (I also remember it being quite significant) was probably the bigger 16kb cache (pentium classic had only 8kb) rat
by ido 2y ago
what gave the pentium mmx the big speed boost (I also remember it being quite significant) was probably the bigger 16kb cache (pentium classic had only 8kb) rather than mmx itself.
- Sesse__ 2y agoYup. More cache, higher clock speeds, slightly more flexible instruction pairing. Few applications used MMX anyway, I think.