This is a useful well written paper. I would suggest that the authors add a short discussion as to what other applications and chip architectures (e.g. Sun or ICM) would benefit from their techniques and if improvement factors would be equally impressive. As a minor point, I would suggest the phrase "Intel SIMD Technology" used in title and abstract is obscure to most readers. It is clear from paper but title starts one thinking of iWARP i860 and other Intel adventures. Something like "optimal Pentium Floating Point" or equivalent would be clearer the changes