OMX-Knuckles Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Just wondering, not that 10.4 would be useable on a P3 machine. Still would be neat to see. Rosetta compatibility isn't an issue, just any way to get it working on SSE. Ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37208-any-solution-possible-ever-for-sse/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 No. Just no. The entire system is framed around SSE3. It would be impossible. SSE2 in itself is quite difficult. In order for SSE to even be considered, all the processor instructions would have to be converted to SSE2 -> SSE3. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37208-any-solution-possible-ever-for-sse/#findComment-264679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMX-Knuckles Posted December 30, 2006 Author Share Posted December 30, 2006 Fair enough, I figured as such. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37208-any-solution-possible-ever-for-sse/#findComment-264704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Hmm, if you read about SSE2 instruction set you might notice it contaisn a hell lot of instructions. Others which were used to emualted the SSE3 to SSE2 would have to be emulated a second time. Now imagine the emulator is around 6000 asm for 3 slots and this just for the few SSE3 instructions. This would mean SSE would require at least a 80-100 times bigger emulator. Ok now with simple math, you might get the point that neither writting it, not using it might be something what might work. Writting it would take at least a year using it would be impossible than since fitting the SSE3 to memory was ahrd enough. Ok, so see, it's just impossible. Beide the fact SSE is really outdated stuff, getting a SSE2 or even better a SSE3 CPU at least might be a good idea. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37208-any-solution-possible-ever-for-sse/#findComment-264776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMX-Knuckles Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 Yah, I've been using 10.4.6 on a Core 2 and it works great. Just thought I'd see if any progress has been made on SSE so I could use it on my duallie P3. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37208-any-solution-possible-ever-for-sse/#findComment-265274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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