Extended (80-bit) double floating point in x87, not SSE2 - we don't miss it?
I was reading today about researchers discovering that NVidia's Phys-X libraries use x87 FP vs. SSE2. Obviously this will be suboptimal for parallel datasets where speed trumps precision. However, the article author goes on to quote: Intel started discouraging the use of x87 with the introduction of the P4 in late 2000. AMD deprecate...