[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]: Align branch target for fft_sse.c, fft_3dn.c and fft_3dn2.c

[Zuxy Meng]

Hi,

2007/5/27, Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu>:
> On Sat, 26 May 2007, Zuxy Meng wrote:
>
> > This patch aligns the loop entry on 16-byte aligned address, as
> > recommended by Intel's and AMD's manuals. But I don't see any
> > noticeable improvements on my Dothan. Anyone to test it on other CPUs?
>
> Core2:
> 256-point fft got 11% faster.
> 2048-point fft got 2% slower.
> Total time to decode vorbis is unchanged.

Thanks! Seems that if branch prediction works right, the misaligned
penalty is well hidden in the pipeline, so patch dropped.

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