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Someone’s Been Messing with My Subnormals
You could also get an issue with x87/MMX where floating point code wouldn't work if you wrote some MMX code and didn't do an `emms` instruction afterward.
This is basically the reason compiler autovectorization doesn't do MMX.
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This is basically the reason compiler autovectorization doesn't do MMX.