[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] "Likely" and "Unlikely" macros

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

The following macros seem to provide great benefit in some critical
code sections, such as decode_cabac_residual, where I've shaved off a
few clocks experimenting with them:

#define likely(x) __builtin_expect((x),1)
#define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect((x),0)

This is probably due to gcc knowing which side of each if statement to inline.

Is there any objection to using these in various critical code
sections in ffmpeg?

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