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> I still say that x86 must run two FPUs all the time, and that has to cost some power (AMD must run three - it also has 3dNow).

Legacy floating-point and SIMD instructions exposed by the ISA (and extensions to it) don't have any bearing on how the hardware works internally.

Additionally, AMD processors haven't supported 3DNow! in over a decade -- K10 was the last processor family to support it.



80-bit x87 has no bearing on SSE implementation.

Right. Not.




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