[tremor] Tremor performance on x86 machines

[Monty]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:56:53AM -0500, Corey Miller wrote:
> does.  The question I'm getting down to is this.  I don't have my test 
> equipment or the dev system as of yet, or any x86 to test this one, so 
> I need to know, would the tremor engine with the low accuracy mod be 
> able to decode an 11 khz mono vorbis file in real time without eating 
> up too much CPU?  Hopefully they could listen to something of this low 
> quality while browsing the net or something.

It would work fairly well, yes, as long as Tremor is built properly.
Tremor depends on having a single-instruction 32x32->64 bit multiply,
and you can acheive that either through a simple ASM stub, or by using
a recenct GCC which should handle the long long C multiplication hack
correctly.

Monty
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