[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] cpu specific implementation of libavutil functions

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:10:50PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Recently I got an altivec adler32 implementation from Sigbj?rn Skj?ret
> and the main issue is how to plant it into libavutils and find a sane
> general way.

how much faster is that adler32 code?
adler32 really should be limited by memory speed not by cpu


> 
> Possibilities:
> 
> - make the av_* a pointer and set it to default to the _c
> implementation, have an av_init_* function to switch it to the other.
> 
> - duplicate completely dsputils (keep a context, init it somewhere, pass
> it to the av_* function or just keep it inside it...)

1. the different libavutil parts MUST stay independant iam very strongly
against turning libavutil into a intermingled mess where its impossible
to use a part without useing everything, so a solution with one big dsputil
like context is not ok

2. do we even have a working altivec detection routine? that what we do
in dsputil is not what i would call working and i will not accept such
hacks in libavutil


> 
> - something better that I hadn't write/thought yet.

well ... :)


> 
> - move dsputil in a standalone library

no

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