Code location sensitivity of timings

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Minimum supported client
Windows XP

The SSE level used is SSE2 so how common is this combination?

It may hurt the feelings of some fans of old hard- and software, but writing code for >=(SSE2 & Win XP) should be OK for 99% of the users.

There is a poll on SSE support here: "I'm still waiting for SSE support :) (5 votes [2.45%])"

That was 2006, 8 years ago ;)

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...or provide fallback routines
you can run a little startup init routine - detect SSE support level - and fill in addresses of PROC's
i am working on something along that line at the moment

these define TYPE's for up to 6 dword parms - you can extend it easily

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_FUNC00  TYPEDEF PROTO
_FUNC04  TYPEDEF PROTO :DWORD
_FUNC08  TYPEDEF PROTO :DWORD,:DWORD
_FUNC12  TYPEDEF PROTO :DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD
_FUNC16  TYPEDEF PROTO :DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD
_FUNC20  TYPEDEF PROTO :DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD
_FUNC24  TYPEDEF PROTO :DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD

_PFUNC00 TYPEDEF Ptr _FUNC00
_PFUNC04 TYPEDEF Ptr _FUNC04
_PFUNC08 TYPEDEF Ptr _FUNC08
_PFUNC12 TYPEDEF Ptr _FUNC12
_PFUNC16 TYPEDEF Ptr _FUNC16
_PFUNC20 TYPEDEF Ptr _FUNC20
_PFUNC24 TYPEDEF Ptr _FUNC24

then, i am using a structure with function pointers in it

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_FUNC STRUCT
  lpfnFunc1  _PFUNC04 ?    ;this function has 1 dword arg
  lpfnFunc2  _PFUNC12 ?    ;this function has 3 dword args
_FUNC STRUCT

and, in the .DATA? section...

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_Func _FUNC <>

so, you set _Func.lpfnFunc1 and _Func.lpfnFunc2 to point at appropriate routines for the supported SSE level
then.....

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    INVOKE  _Func.lpfnFunc1,arg1
    INVOKE  _Func.lpfnFunc2,arg1,arg2,arg3

;or

    push    edi
    mov     edi,offset _Func
    INVOKE  [edi]._FUNC.lpfnFunc1,arg1
    INVOKE  [edi]._FUNC.lpfnFunc2,arg1,arg2,arg3
    pop     edi

another way to go would be to put all the routines for each support level into a DLL
then, at init, load the DLL that is appropriate for the machine
the routines can then all have the same names

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most people probably have at least SSE3
however, we can look at the forum members, alone, and find a few machines
some that probably support only MMX or SSE(1)

i bought this machine in 2005 - it supports SSE3, which was a new thing at the time
so - it's almost 10 years old

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i bought this machine in 2005 - it supports SSE3, which was a new thing at the time
so - it's almost 10 years old

SSE3 was introduced in April 2005 with the Prescott revision of the Pentium 4 processor.

Gunther

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SSE3 was introduced in April 2005 with the Prescott revision of the Pentium 4 processor.

SSE2 was introduced in November 2000 with the P4 Willamette. In general, it's absolutely sufficient (try your luck, make Instr_() faster with SSE7.8...); in particular, pcmpeqb and pmovmskb are important improvements.

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