Editing MMX (instruction set) (section)

===Software support===
Software support for MMX developed slowly.<ref name=NYT.1997Jan24/> [[Intel C++ Compiler|Intel's C Compiler]] and related development tools obtained [[intrinsic function|intrinsics]] for invoking MMX instructions and Intel released [[Library (computing)|libraries]] of common vectorized algorithms using MMX. Both Intel and [[Metrowerks]] attempted [[automatic vectorization]] in their compilers, but the operations in the [[C (programming language)|C]] programming language mapped poorly onto the MMX instruction set and custom algorithms as of 2000 typically still had to be written in [[assembly language]].{{r|conte}}