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[jhalada]

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Joe

[mmoy]

From the perspective of web browsers, I don't see a huge benefit to the additional double-precision floating point performance.
Mozilla uses double-precision floating point in Javascript
processing which is an interpreted language and the processing
doesn't lend itself to benefits from SIMD.

There is code that does floating point conversions and arithmetic
for integer scaling but that's done in single-precision. Image
rendering can usually be done in 16-bit or 32-bit integer
arithmetic which lends itself to SIMD processing but usually the
integer processing gives you far more bang for the cycle.

I'd guess that games would benefit more from single-prevision
performance improvements than DP.