Note 58: For more information on Streaming SIMD Extensions you can refer, among other sources, to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions.

This is a note commenting on the fact that since Delphi 2007 Update 1 you can use the new SetMinimumBlockAlignment call of the memory manager to change the minimum block alignment, and that using a 16-byte alignment speeds up some SSE operations.

This blog post is part of my "113 Delphi 2007 Handbook Notes" blogging project, to promote my new Delphi book.