>
> I am running a StrongARM system, which has no hardware FPU, so I would like
> to add fixed-point arithmetic routines to LAME (just the StrongARM release,
> not everyone's version) to speed it up.
>
> Which bits do you think would benefit most, and how can I profile the code?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
One thing to try right away is setting xrpow_flag=1 in loop.c. This
turns on some of Chris' speedups which substantially cut down on the
number of pow() calls, at the expense of an extra variable. Chris got
an 8% speedup, but it was actually slower on my PII, so I left it off
by default.
Mark
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