[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Remove ff_inverse from libavcodec.

[Uoti Urpala]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 18:57 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
> The previous patch added a copy of ff_inverse in libavutil, this patch
> removes the copy present in libavcodec, making it rely on the one
> present in libavutil.

Using a symbol from another library is slower (a symbol from the same
library is at a constant offset, a symbol from another library requires
lookup through offset table). Since the whole point of FASTDIV is speed
this could matter.