Do I get a performance penalty when mixing SSE integer/float SIMD instructions

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From an expert (obviously not me :P): http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_assembly.pdf [13.2 Using vector instructions with other types of data than they are intended for (pages 118-119)]:

There is a penalty for using the wrong type of instructions on some processors. This is
because the processor may have different data buses or different execution units for integer
and floating point data. Moving data between the integer and floating point units can take
one or more clock cycles depending on the processor, as listed in table 13.2.

Processor                       Bypass delay, clock cycles 
  Intel Core 2 and earlier        1 
  Intel Nehalem                   2 
  Intel Sandy Bridge and later    0-1 
  Intel Atom                      0 
  AMD                             2 
  VIA Nano                        2-3 
Table 13.2. Data bypass delays between integer and floating point execution units

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