[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Faster ff_sqrt()

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:14:04PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:52:13AM -0700, Loren Merritt wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Vitor Sessak wrote:
> > > I saw in the thread "Copy-on-write pages statistics" that roqaudioenc.c
> > > is a big copy-on-write memory usage offender. I think that
> > > increasing the memory usage of FFmpeg by 16kb just for a table used in a
> > > game format encoder is not a good idea. So I'm sending a new, faster
> > > ff_sqrt(), so I can remove the table completely without too much speed loss.
> 
> I don't think it is faster for value < 128... And it is "insanely" more
> complex. At least I find it really, really ugly, but maybe that's just
> me...

That was exactly my thought as well when i saw the patch.
If anyone wants a faster sqrt() please find a simlper solution
That is unless ff_sqrt() would really affect an important codec speedwise.
But it doesnt AFAIK

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Many things microsoft did are stupid, but not doing something just because
microsoft did it is even more stupid. If everything ms did were stupid they
would be bankrupt already.
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