[FFmpeg-devel] Experimental MSVC port

[Ramiro Polla]

Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala <at> pp1.inet.fi> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 21:13 +0000, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> > Note: I don't like MSVC much more than gcc, but at least MSVC shows it 
still
> > optimizes very well, and doesn't follow the "inverse proportional relation 
> 
> Do you expect to get a noticeable performance benefit from using MSVC
> instead of gcc? icc shows a less than 10% performance gain compared to
> gcc in h264 decoding, and I'd expect the compiler to matter less in most
> other codecs.

Do you not find 10% good enough just because of a different compiler?
I expect even more in plain-C codecs, since the asm is hand-written
anyways...