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The end of an era as Linux 7.5 purges the last 30-year-old Intel MMX optimizations from Pentium age

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Linux developers are preparing to make Intel’s ancient MultiMedia eXtensions an irrelevance. Intel introduced MMX in the Pentium era, but a patch expected to merge into mainline Linux 7.5 will remove…

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