No. It is much faster, measurably. Anyone who believes the old adage that compilers outperform humans isn't writing math code or is just a lousy assembly programmer.
On Apr 12, 2012, at 9:32 PM, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodrig...@opensuse.org> wrote: > Hi: > > In my opinion, we should axe all pure asm implementations in > src/libFLAC/ia32 and the relevant configure options. > > Reasons are simple: > > - modern compilers plus the use of intrisincs make the code as faster > as possible, if you need maximum speed I suggest you to build with > profiling enabled. ;) > > - there is no support for x86_64 (that is.. all modern PC ;-) ) or for > arm (most modern phones and media players) > > - AFAIK, those assembler optimizations may be even slower than the C > code or buggy. > > Thoughts ? > > Cheers! > _______________________________________________ > flac-dev mailing list > flac-dev@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev