Comment by derf_
4 hours ago
> I believe that only the first Pentium 3 core, Katmai, did this.
No, the Pentium M (Banias / Dothan) also needed multiple cycles for basic SSE2 ops (with a few exceptions like PUNPCKLQDQ or PMOVMSKB), a full four years after Katmai (source: I owned one, and wrote SIMD on it for codec libraries).
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