'The biggest speedup I've seen so far' — FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code - eviltoast

But admit this boost is only seen in ‘an obscure filter’.

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    1 month ago

    It means someone wrote actual assembly code instead of writing C code and relying on the compiler to generare optimal assembly for them.