[XviD-devel] [RFC] AMD64 support
Andrew Dunstan
a_dunstan at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 12 22:33:14 CET 2004
>So the question is:
> - Do i dumbly include all asm code port or,
> - Do i include only meaningfull functions (mostly xmm functions which
> perform far better than sse2, and are more accurate than their mmx
> cousins for MPEG quant)
Not sure if you consider this relevant, but the x86-64 version of windows
only supports SSE and SSE2 instructions using the XMM registers so all
functions need to be 128-bit. Also from what I can gather windows uses
different registers to pass function parameters from those used in linux.
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