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Msalas - 12 May 2005 13:00 GMT

Hi,
Does arch:SSE2 make use of prefetch instructions included in multimedia
extensions?
What compiler switches generate prefetch instructions?

Thanks

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Kapil Khosla [MSFT] - 12 May 2005 19:32 GMT

> Hi,
> Does arch:SSE2 make use of prefetch instructions included in multimedia
> extensions?
> What compiler switches generate prefetch instructions?
>
> Thanks

On x86, we never generate Prefetch. On AMD64, we'll always generate them
(arch:SSE2 has no effect on AMD64)
Thanks,
Kapil

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