[theora] Optimised ARM Ogg/Theora/Vorbis decoder

[Robin Watts]

In message <4AB79AB0.7080500 at mozilla.com>
          Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 9/19/2009 6:19 AM, Robin Watts wrote:
> > I've started to revisit the hotspots, rewriting the code to use
> > ARM v6 SIMD extensions, but I am unable to test it due to not
> > having an appropriate device. If anyone out there has a suitable
> > device and would be prepared to test my code on it, please get in
> > touch!
> >
> > I hope to look at using v7 or NEON instructions as appropriate
> > too.
> >
> > Thanks,
> Would a beagleboard help with this?  I'm told it has video out and
> I  think it runs with newer ARM cores.

Yes, a beagleboard would be perfect - but I've been putting off
buying one, as I need to buy a monitor to go with it (none of mine
are DVI compatible). I think I might bite the bullet and spend the
cash in the morning though :)

I've got ARMv6 SIMD working for the fragment reconstruction (running
under an emulation environment), so hopefully progress won't be
completely blocked until it arrives.

Robin
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