On Monday 20 October 2008, Jonathan Isom wrote: > > So is that why it's worthless or is it because even if it produced > > a working binary, it wouldn't be any faster? > > I think it depends on the processor. on my old xp system mplayer > was twice as fast. Now on my Athlon 64 x2 I find no difference. That was the hand-written code, not gcc autovectorized.