[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lavfi: check links properties after configuring them.

[Nicolas George]

Le primidi 11 brumaire, an CCXXVI, Clement Boesch a écrit :
> My bad, you're right, I was looking at the wrong header with the same
> variable names. Dismiss my comment.

Ok, series pushed.

> I'd say that a counter is unlikely to require a sign vs unsigned
> optimization (and if it does and we know the counter is positive only, we
> can explicit it with bit shifts etc). OTOH, the compiler will always have
> to assume an overflow can happen if the initial counter value comes from
> another variable, and you can't do much to hint it about it. Assuming a
> loop overflow has IMO much more impact of what the compiler can do in the
> general logic of the loop. But that's pure speculation from me.

I find the conclusion that lying to the compiler would help it make the
code faster it hard to swallow.

I think the real logic is this: unsigned, since they have a much simpler
semantic, have been optimized efficiently by compilers for a long time.
Recently, compilers have learned to use undefined behaviours to optimize
signed further, almost as much as unsigned. But not better.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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