[FFmpeg-devel] Nasm/yasm support and x264 asm

[Luca Barbato]

Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> Without these, it would likely be a nightmare to try to port the asm;
> at the very least it would require a complete and total split of the
> code into 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and sometimes MMX and SSE
> versions, which would be a great way to create yet another "big ball
> of mud" in dsputil.

given x86 and x86_64 are different arches with different misfeatures and 
MMX and SSE should be again different arch extensions with different 
misfeatures, I always find strange having the code shared.

lu

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Luca Barbato
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