On Sep 1, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
There is some, particularly in the components that are optimized to to take advantage of the native hardware signal processing capabilities integrated into the PowerPC G4/G5 and Pentium series cpus. Hand-coded instructions in these critical sections, by someone who knows how to take advantage of them, can net enormous gains in processing speed. It's very carefully factored, of course.
This kind of thing is becoming less common as modern CPUs are so complex that a good compiler will generate faster code than hand- tuned assembly. Provided the code is written in a way that the compiler will optimise it well ;)
Cheers, - Dave
