[XviD-devel] [PRE RELEASE] v0.9.1 is ready -- last chance to report bugs

[Stephan Krause]

Hi,

> Good to hear that, I'm just curious to know what you do with XviD on
> such a highend type of architecture ;-)
[...]

The iA64-Code is the result of a "Praktical Work" at the University of 
Karlsruhe (with the goal to find possibilities to optimize assembler code for 
this architecture which *could* be used to build a good[1] compiler for iA64).
(And I remained as "maintainer", because we didn't want all the work to be 
wasted)

But at last, the Itanium (1) is not really highend, but only a damm expansive 
way of heating. In fact, my Athlon 900 is *MUCH* faster encoding Videos than 
that piece of hardware. The Itanium 2 is said to be much better, but 'till 
now, I did never see one.. But since the Architecture is mostly the same, 
XviD should run there, too, and should be able to use our assembler- 
optimizations.

Stephan

[1] ther is no really good compile for iA64 i know of, most of the pretty 
features of the architecture can only be used coding assembler, and the is no 
real solution finding the optimal order of instructions to reach a maximum 
level of parallelism, as the cpu does not reorder the instructions like the 
x86.

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Sig fault. (core dumped)