[Theora-dev] patch to build theora-mmx on AMD64

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Wed May 10 11:54:05 PDT 2006


On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:46:03PM -0400, Dan Lenski wrote:

> Also, now that I think about it it's probably not very useful to pass
> around 64-bit integers in the C code.  My goal was simply to avoid the
> overhead of casting a few function arguments between 32-bit and 64-bit
> in the most heavily used DSP routines.  This probably makes a
> negligible difference overall and it could be a maintenance nightmare
> to have different function prototypes in the 32- and 64-bit versions.

indeed.

> So I think I'll just remove the uint64s unless anyone objects...

Sounds like a plan.

 -r


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