[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] update doc/optimization.txt

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger
Tue Sep 21 09:20:53 CEST 2010


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 08:03:29PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> For the functions that I converted, I don't believe any of them will
> be inlined. In fact, I believe we'll use more function pointers
> because of new instruction sets (e.g. Intel's new AVX). These we can't
> inline if you want to keep supporting "older" x86-64 CPUs (which you
> most likely do).

I don't think it will happen since we would need a less messy
way to implement it, but the idea is to support building
for one and only one specific CPU like libswscale does,
there would be no need for any function pointers at all.



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