On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:01:59PM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Josh de Kock (2016-07-21 02:48:31)
> > --- a/libavcodec/x86/hevcdsp_init.c
> > +++ b/libavcodec/x86/hevcdsp_init.c
> > @@ -78,6 +78,23 @@ IDCT_FUNCS(32x32, sse2);
> >  IDCT_FUNCS(16x16, avx2);
> >  IDCT_FUNCS(32x32, avx2);
> >  
> > +void ff_hevc_add_residual_4_8_mmxext(uint8_t *dst, int16_t *coeffs, 
> > ptrdiff_t stride);
> > +void ff_hevc_add_residual_8_8_sse2(uint8_t *dst, int16_t *coeffs, 
> > ptrdiff_t stride);
> > +void ff_hevc_add_residual_16_8_sse2(uint8_t *dst, int16_t *coeffs, 
> > ptrdiff_t stride);
> > +void ff_hevc_add_residual_32_8_sse2(uint8_t *dst, int16_t *coeffs, 
> > ptrdiff_t stride);
> > +
> > +void ff_hevc_add_residual_4_10_mmxext(uint8_t *dst, int16_t *coeffs, 
> > ptrdiff_t stride);
> > +void ff_hevc_add_residual_8_10_sse2(uint8_t *dst, int16_t *coeffs, 
> > ptrdiff_t stride);
> > +void ff_hevc_add_residual_16_10_sse2(uint8_t *dst, int16_t *coeffs, 
> > ptrdiff_t stride);
> > +void ff_hevc_add_residual_32_10_sse2(uint8_t *dst, int16_t *coeffs, 
> > ptrdiff_t stride);
> 
> Is there any point at all in having mmxext/sse2 versions of those
> functions when AVX code is also present. Seems to me that decoding HEVC
> on anything pre-AVX is such a fringe use case so this might as well be
> dead code.

I watch HEVC movies all the time, I have no AVX on my Phenom quadcore.
Before I had a Core 2 Duo dualcore, which was also plenty fast enough
for 1920p HEVC movies.  Both CPUs have SSE2.  However, the usefulness
of mmxext is indeed debatable.

Diego
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