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The end of an era as Linux 7.5 purges the last 30-year-old Intel MMX optimizations from Pentium age


Linux developers are preparing to make Intel’s ancient MultiMedia eXtensions irrelevant, with the last MMX code now set to be removed from the kernel.

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