[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] integer.h overhaul

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 05:01:28PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I needed to extend big integer support to make it able to contain up
> to 2304 bits (144 16-bits words), so I re-worked the API to avoid to
> pass huge arrays by value.

why do you need to work with such large integers ?
please explain the algorithm you try to implement

why do you remove the pass by value ?
multiplying 2 such numbers will take probably around a million
cpu cyles, with the current implementation that was not designed for
this, copying such a number in pass by value will take maybe around
hundread cpu cyles.
so this isnt making it faster but it makes its interface quite
awkward to use IMHO

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