[ODE] Some SSE in Quick step

[GARY VANSICKLE]

> GARY VANSICKLE wrote:
> > Which by your own admission isn't applicable to something like ODE.
> Just like D3D and for pretty much the same *technical* reasons.
> 

Bloat?  How so?

> > Well, apparently when it comes to run-time exploitation of
> > MMX/SSE/SSE2/3DNOW!/this/that/the-other instructions, it pretty much
> does.
> > But we should also apparently avoid using the facility at all costs,
> because
> > Microsoft is Evil(tm).
> Microsoft being Evil is totally orthogonal to the problem at hand.

Right.  To the technical problem at hand.  But not to the knee-jerk
"No-Microsoft-No-Way-No-How-Don't-Even-Bother" reaction of some to the
proposition.

> Please keep the propaganda where it belongs. 

Uh, yeah, you first. (???)

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle