[XviD-devel] Multithreaded ME

[Michael Militzer]

> Hi,
>
> finally, my dual-CPU ME is faster than single threaded, at least in high
> quality modes. I'll do some cleanup and then commit one day to CVS.
> It will be disabled by default, only -D_SMP will activate it.
>
> Christoph

great, btw: how much faster is the dual-cpu mode now?

Some time ago I suggested to make the ME multithreaded for single-cpu mode
also, but I guess this was a really stupid idea. I suppose it would be
slower(?) and the multithreaded code would be much less portable. So it's
good like it's now...

Michael