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'The biggest speedup I've seen so far' — FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code (www.tomshardware.com)
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But admit this boost is only seen in 'an obscure filter'.

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[–] orhtej2@eviltoast.org 107 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

Thank you 🙏