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Long ago before perturbation theory came about, I purchased a license for Fractal eXtreme as it was one of the fastest (if not the fastest) fractal explorer on the market.

However, it's disappointing in that it looks like an almost 20 year old program.

It certainly could do with a major overhaul, and get dragged into the modern era.

It needs to have improved colour palette options, allow each fractal window to have its own palette, allow users to include other fractal types without requiring Visual Studio, and have a perturbation method.

These things would allow the program to be much more useful.

I've always thought Fractal Extreme does use SIMD (SSE2) but I cant find any evidence of this online.
(Googles Fractal Extreme SSE2)
Okay found it!
http://www.cygnus-software.com/whybuyfx/releasenotes.htm
Version 1.9 October 2003
"Optimization: Fractal eXtreme will now automatically detect if you have an
SSE2 capable CPU (such as a Pentium 4) and will use SSE2 instructions for
 better performance. The speedup varies between 0% and 130%!!"

I seem to recall you were using a decimal extended precision library for Kalles Fraktaler.
Is that still the case?
I wonder how much of a speedup Fractal Extreme's SSE2 extended precision would make?
Not much because KF doesn't spend much time calculating reference points at full precision?