[FFmpeg-devel] H.264 CABAC Decoder on IBM Cell

[Loren Merritt]

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>
> I'm going to blame the fact that the primary core of the Cell (stupidly)
> doesn't have a barrel shift unit, resulting in variable shifts, such as
> those in renormalization, being implemented in microcode (and
> correspondingly being extraordinarily slow).
>
> But that's just a guess.  It needs to be profiled.

Those shifts could all be multiplies if that's faster. But a quick google
says that PPU sucks at integer multiplies too, just not quite as much as
shifts.
c->range could be LUTed, but c->low would take quite a big LUT.

--Loren Merritt