Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> What do you think, should an MP3 encoder benefit from using MMX
> instructions? Are there plans to add MMX support to 8hz-mp3? Is there
> anyone working on it now - does he need help? I don't know MMX _yet_ but
> I'll take the opportunity to learn if there is need.
>
> ---
> Alex Shnitman
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> http://alexsh.home.ml.org
I think MMX is 1) purely INTEL dependent 2) purely integer dependent
and 3) purely algorithm dependent.
8HzMP3 will lose portability, uses FP and will require too much algorithm
revamping.
but who knows... maybe with MMX-2 ? :-P
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