Initial Nehalem CPU optimizations
movaps/movups are no longer equivalent to their integer equivalents on the Nehalem, so that substitution is removed.
Nehalem has a much lower cacheline split penalty than previous Intel CPUs, so cacheline workarounds are no longer necessary.
Thanks to Intel for providing Avail Media with the pre-release Nehalem CPU needed to prepare these (and other not-yet-committed) optimizations.
Overall speed improvement with Nehalem vs Penryn at the same clock speed is around 40%.
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