[FFmpeg-devel] Inline ASM vs. Intrinsics

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:23:52AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > Extending the C language with machine-specific intrinsics is a
> > disgusting and misguided practice in principle as well. C is for
> > writing the code that's portable between machines, ASM is for writing
> > machine-specific optimizations. There's no excuse for polluting C with
> > machine-specific stuff.
> 
> Luckily I and the other ppc developers used the altivec intrinsics and
> now we can quickly convert our vector code to SPU without rewriting
> everything from scratch...

just curious, how would asm make that more difficult?

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