x86 max/min asm instructions?

Question

Are there any asm instructions that can speed up computation of min/max of vector of doubles/integers on Core i7 architecture?

Update:

I didn\'t

Answer 1

In response to your second question, it may be worthwhile to you to think about the way you collect and store this data.

You may store the data in a B-tree that keeps the data sorted at all times, requiring only logarithmic compare operations.

Then you know at all times where the maximum is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_tree