[vorbis-dev] alloca() problem with CodeWarrior

[Segher Boessenkool]

Dan Conti wrote:
> 
> Heh, segher, of all the people on this list, you should be one of the
> last to say such a thing. ;)

> > Most embedded systems won't use libvorbis _anyway_, due to performance
> > problems.

Huh?  Why?

All libvorbis optimization work I (and others) did is for generic, modern,
workstation-class cpu's, which have 1) a (somewhat) big level 2 cache,
2) separate level 1 I- and D-caches, and 3) an fpu.  Also, libvorbis is
a _reference implementation_.  That means that it *has* to be modular and
readable, and that it can use tricky performance tricks only locally.

Which is not to say that it's impossible to write a vorbis decoder library
that is fast both on gpu's and embedded systems.  In fact, I wrote one.

<p>Segher

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