[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Faster CABAC H.264 residual decoding

[Guillaume POIRIER]

On 5/5/08, Alexander Strange <astrange at ithinksw.com> wrote:
>
>  On May 4, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

>  > While trying to write an smart reply to your mail, I asked Google what
>  > it knew about PPC and predicates (I vaguely remembered that PPC had
>  > some support for writing assmebly with predicates).
>  > The best source I found was this piece: http://www.warthman.com/ex-CWG.htm
>  >
>  > I'm sorry to see that this time around both x86 and Itanium has a much
>  > more useful instructions to optimize the code snippets you pasted.
>  >
>  > :-(
>  >
>  > Guillaume
>
>
> I thought they'd added 'isel' (same as cmov) to PPCs newer than the
>  G5, but it doesn't seem to be in Cell. That's kind of weird.

Well, a quick Googling told me that "isel" has been added to Power ISA
v.2.04, while both Cell PPE and PPC970 comply to Power ISA v.2.03
only.
More information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture#Power_ISA_v.2.04

Guillaume
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