there are very, very few cases where that matters enough anymore to pay
someone to do it. i have lots of friends at IBM's compiler research group.
optimal code generation is a solved problem as far as the research community
is concerned. the fact that GCC isn't very good at it is the project of one
of my friends. Apple is paying him to fix the code optimizer to what he says
is 25 year old technology since he invented it 25 years ago.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: Gimp, Anyone?
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.
