[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] SSE counterpart of ff_imdct_calc_3dn2

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:50:18AM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:59:37AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > Also, ICC is able to process these intrinsics, whereas it has a hard
> > time with inline asm.
> 
> As an aside: unless they've changed it recently, on IA64 icc provides
> only intrinsics and doesn't allow inline assembly at all.  Granted
> very few people are going to _want_ to write IA64 assembly anyway, so
> it's not that surprising.  A downside is that since they don't provide
> intrinsics for every possible instruction and hint combination, there
> are some obscure but potentially useful instructions that it can't
> generate.

This is idiotic. Inline asm is not just for vector ops. Often you want
it for 'normal' opcodes too. Of course icc sucks so it's no big deal.

Rich