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I really can't see how you read anything else that "it's very optimized" in my message, tbh.
by jbk 5y ago
I really can't see how you read anything else that "it's very optimized" in my message, tbh.
- eikenberry 5y ago"[..] code has now around 186 kLoC of hand-written assembly in .S and .asm files…" This reads to me as it being a PITA to maintain. Cross platform code is usually a pain, cross platform with assembly optimizations is more of a pain. Optimization nearly always makes things harder to maintain, and this sounds like it was optimized to hell and back...
- jbk 5y ago> This reads to me as it being a PITA to maintain. Not more than any other language: when it's well done, it's manageable. When it's spaghetti code, it's not manageable.
- coldpie 5y agoI have a suspicion that the president of VideoLAN has a better idea of the complexity & maintainability of this code than you do.