[FFmpeg-devel] the future of fastmemcpy.h

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:53:59PM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> > Ronald brought up the subject of the fastmemcpy.h #includes that we
> > continue to have in a few source files.  fastmemcpy.h is part of MPlayer
> > and not FFmpeg.  Is the #include just old cruft or worth keeping?
> > 
> 
> I thought today about moving fastmemcpy into libavutil.

Please don't without proper performance testing, it stops gcc from
replacing constant-size memcpys by an inlined builtin, causing both
valgrind problems and at least for lzo massive slowdown.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger