orhtej2 comments on 'The biggest speedup I've seen so far' — FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@programming.dev

But admit this boost is only seen in 'an obscure filter'.

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[–] orhtej2@eviltoast.org 103 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It means someone wrote actual assembly code instead of writing C code and relying on the compiler to generare optimal assembly for them.

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[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago

Thank you 🙏

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