[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] PPC64: Add versions of functions in libswscale/input.c optimized for POWER8 VSX SIMD.

[Clément Bœsch]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 07:28:27AM -0500, Dan Parrot wrote:
[...]
> > Also, one further thought:
> > From the commit message, it sounds like you might only be doing this
> > for the bounty in #5570, do you plan to maintain these optimizations
> > in the future?
> 
> Unless you are a mind reader, STFU about my motivation in writing code.
> 

It's probably not a good idea for the project to accept a thousand lines
of code for a niche architecture which no one is going to maintain, that's
why the question was asked.

swscale might get some improvements in the future, and the people doing
eventual refactorings will probably be blocked into doing it because the
project is known for keeping this kind of stuff in forever. And of course,
they probably won't have an easy way of testing if there is no maintainer
to give them a hand.

Finally, given the hostile reaction and the very relative speed up, it
doesn't look like this contribution is going to benefit the project.

This is my personal opinion, which might not be shared by the other
developers.

Regards,

-- 
Clément B.
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