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[DarkLordofthePenguins]

I'm currently studying CPU architectures, starting with the 68K and moving on to learn x86 and the x86 Assembly Language. I intend to implement graphics and multimedia from the ground up with inline Assembly in C, rather than using a framework like OpenGL. Is the MMX architecture are good next step? I'm not sure how up-to-date it is or whether it's compatible with most CPUs. I know next to nothing about MMX other than that it's an extension that allows for multimedia programming.

[mebob]

Well, MMX was superseded mostly by SSE, maybe you should look at that. You could use both if you wanted to.

Edited by mebob, 26 August 2011 - 09:34 AM.
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[dargueta]

Definitely SSE. I suggest you start out with something simple to get yourself acquainted with the system, like doing vector multiplication on several pairs of vectors at once. (That's the point of SSE - to do the same operation on multiple sets of data at the same time. Pretty cool.)