[flac-dev] PPC asm is disabled since Jan 2005? Why?

[lvqcl]

lvqcl wrote:

> FLAC__lpc_restore_signal_asm_ia32_mmx compares 'order' argument with 4
> and if it's greater then it jumps to FLAC__lpc_restore_signal_asm_ia32.
>
> I wonder why the same wasn't done for PPC/Altivec: why libFLAC compares
> 'order' and 8 in C code and not in asm.

...more about PPC ASM:

http://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commitdiff;h=63d489ae3140296419afdfc4cfc87cc2c7cb9faf
http://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commitdiff;h=3c8d2973cb87e318c11f3a487f2204bf0d673176


+AM_CONDITIONAL(FLaC__HAS_AS__TEMPORARILY_DISABLED, test "yes" = "no")


-if FLaC__HAS_AS
+#@@@@@@
+if FLaC__HAS_AS__TEMPORARILY_DISABLED



-CPUCFLAGS = -maltivec -mabi=altivec -force_cpusubtype_ALL
+#@@@@@@ PPC optimizations temporarily disabled
+CPUCFLAGS = -maltivec -mabi=altivec -force_cpusubtype_ALL -DFLAC__NO_ASM



Does it mean that PowerPC/Altivec asm optimizations were disabled almost 10 years ago?