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• krick at 2006-06-16 12:42
  Does KZIP favor any particular CPU architecture?
  
  Is it floating point or integer intensive?
  
  I have a motherboard that supports the ASUS CT-479 adapter for Pentium M CPUs and I was wondering if KZIP would run faster or slower on this CPU.
  
  Also, just out of curiousity...
  
  Does it require a Pentium or will it run on a 486?
  
  Does it require/ take advantage of extensions like MMX?
• Awesoken at 2006-06-16 14:27

  Does KZIP favor any particular CPU architecture?

  Not really. It's mostly C code. I have not optimized it specifically for any architecture.

  Is it floating point or integer intensive?

  I use floating point to find block boundaries, which happens during the initial pass. After that point, everything is integer.

  Does it require a Pentium or will it run on a 486?

  It requires a Pentium due to my use of the RDTSC instruction.

  Does it require/ take advantage of extensions like MMX?

  KZIP does not use MMX.