[vorbis] RC3: I'm impressed

[Joel]

What about translating some critical functions to hand optimized assembly. Are there any parts of the decoder that 
probably won't change? Another nice thing to do would be the riddance of the FPU need.

Any ideas of what to focus on first?

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>> Is anyone working on optimizing the libs ?  Would be nice to see ogg
>> decoding down to the same level as mp3 decoding if it's even feasible.
>> Perhaps using something like the libmmxnow that avifile uses to detect which
>> routines to use on different chipsets for the x86 arch at least.
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>We might get a bit of speedup with Visual Studio.NET's /G6 (optimize for
>ppro/pII/pIII), but there's no telling at this point. the oggenc.exe that's
>published for Windows is optimized for speed (at least as far as MSVC++ 6
>will do, at any rate).
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>If you want more speed, someone'll have to spring for Intel's optimizing
>compiler. I don't know if AMD has its own, however.

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