Peter Åstrand wrote:
Regardless of which libraries we decide to use, we need to select a
decent assembler. In my opinion, NASM is a great assembler. Before we
decided to use it for SIMD/jpeg, we evaluated different options and
NASM certainly looked like the most promising solution, and I think
MSVC 2008 is certainly a problematic requirement for many people. As
we have discussed before, one idea, which I still believe we should
implement, is to get rid of all MS compiler dependencies. This means
that the Autotools toolchain, GCC, and NASM could be used an all
platforms.
I agree with
