I thought typically for efficient pipelines on x86 hardware, or to avoid cache hits where the data being shoved in does not fit the hardware perfectly. For FFm

I thought typically for efficient pipelines on x86 hardware, or to avoid cache hits where the data being shoved in does not fit the hardware perfectly. For FFmpeg that is a concern, but I believe the replier to my original comment was disparaging C++ for no good reason, other than it wasn't C...