[FFmpeg-devel] Inline ASM vs. Intrinsics

[Luca Barbato]

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...


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Luca Barbato

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