AMD comes up with K10 performance library

Chimpzilla always trailed Chipzilla, but in the past several years, that situation begun to change. Our favourite Slovakian software-newshound came back to us with the news that the latest APL has some interesting optimisations.

Comparison of differences between old 1.0 and new 1.1 libraries

AMD recently posted AMD Performance Library 1.1 Preview, a set of software routines that accelerate app development and optimisation for AMD x86 processors, especially ones of the 64-bit kind. With the 1.1., enhancements offered are video decoding, JPEG operations and all the lovely things of upcoming 10h series of processors. They include Barcelona on server side, Agena on desktop and Griffin on mobile side. To translate the optimization into regular English, besides dual-core opt code for existing Athlons and Turions, AMD added the quad-core optimisations.

If you are a member of AMD Developer Central, you can freely download APL 1.1, while regular folk can read what AMD brings to the table of software development for 2007 and 2008. µ

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