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[Caml-list] doing MMX through ocaml

Jonathan Roewen
- Oliver Bandel
  - Jonathan Roewen
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      - Damien Bobillot
      - Jonathan Roewen
        
        Vincenzo Ciancia
        
        Alessandro Baretta
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  - Brian Hurt
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Date:	2005-11-17 (21:48)
From:	Oliver Bandel <oliver@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] doing MMX through ocaml

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:13:00AM +1300, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
[...] 
> The FFI just requires that the external symbol exists, right? Soooo, I
> could theoretically define pure ASM routines that O'Caml could call.
[...] 
> And since MMX deals solely with integers, the Val_long/Long_val macros
> could be implemented by a simple extra MMX instruction or two, right?
[...] 


ASM...MMX.... will the OS be available for more than one platform?

Ciao,
   Oliver