On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 07:41:17PM +0300, Martin Storsjö wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >So, does anybody still care about the sh4 optimizations that we have?
> >Did anybody run benchmarks to confirm they actually provide a speedup?
> >Do we have a volunteer to set up a FATE instance on the hardware?
> >
> >Otherwise I think we should seriously consider just throwing the
> >code away.  It's ugly and crufty to say the least and it causes
> >maintenance overhead.  Whether it is worth the trouble is not
> >clear at all.
> 
> Most of these optimizations are just tweaks on plain C level, so I'm
> a bit doubtful to how useful they are at this point, given the
> compiler advances during the last 10 years. The few assembly bits
> might be a bit more valuable.

Yes, I should have been more clear: There is an assembler IDCT and some
bit shifting routines in libavutil.  That stuff is probably worth keeping,
but the compiler trickery is dubious.

Diego
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