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 =====Using SSE2 instructions===== =====Using SSE2 instructions=====
  
-//by Richard Russell, updated May 2015//\\ \\ [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2|SSE2]] instructions are supported by the **ASMLIB2** library, and that will generally be the most appropriate way to incorporate them in a program. However using the library has one significant disadvantage: the resulting program cannot be straightforwardly compiled, because the SSE2 instructions will not be accepted by the //cruncher//. To workaround this issue the assembler code must be placed in a separate file (with an extension other than .BBC) which is executed at run time, for example:\\ +//by Richard Russell, updated May 2015//\\ \\ [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2|SSE2]] instructions are supported by the **ASMLIB2** library, and that will generally be the most appropriate way to incorporate them in a program. However using the library has one significant disadvantage: the resulting program cannot be straightforwardly compiled, because the SSE2 instructions will not be accepted by the //cruncher//. To workaround this issue the assembler code must be placed in a separate file (with an extension other than .BBC) which is executed at run time, for example: 
 + 
 +<code bb4w>  
         CALL "mysse2code.bba"         CALL "mysse2code.bba"
 +</code>
 +
 (the file should have a **RETURN** as the last statement).\\ \\  Whilst this solution is relatively straightforward it is arguably inconvenient, especially if the amount of assembler code is small. There is an alternative way of assembling many of the SSE2 instructions which does not require the use of a library and which allows the program to be compiled conventionally; that is to add a **word** qualifier to the equivalent MMX instruction. So for example the instruction:\\  (the file should have a **RETURN** as the last statement).\\ \\  Whilst this solution is relatively straightforward it is arguably inconvenient, especially if the amount of assembler code is small. There is an alternative way of assembling many of the SSE2 instructions which does not require the use of a library and which allows the program to be compiled conventionally; that is to add a **word** qualifier to the equivalent MMX instruction. So for example the instruction:\\ 
         punpcklbw xmm0,xmm1         punpcklbw xmm0,xmm1
 can be assembled as follows:\\  can be assembled as follows:\\ 
         punpcklbw word mm0,mm1 ; punpcklbw xmm0,xmm1         punpcklbw word mm0,mm1 ; punpcklbw xmm0,xmm1
-\\  The full set of **SSE2** instructions which can be assembled in this way is as follows:\\ + 
 +The full set of **SSE2** instructions which can be assembled in this way is as follows: 
 + 
         punpcklbw word mm0,mm1 ; punpcklbw xmm0,xmm1         punpcklbw word mm0,mm1 ; punpcklbw xmm0,xmm1
         punpcklwd word mm0,mm1 ; punpcklwd xmm0,xmm1         punpcklwd word mm0,mm1 ; punpcklwd xmm0,xmm1
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