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'The biggest speedup I've seen so far' — FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code (www.tomshardware.com)
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But admit this boost is only seen in 'an obscure filter'.

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[-] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

Here's an example of inline assembly in C++. You can write assembly inside your higher level code for performance optimizations to just doing really specific things that you can only really do at an assembly level. I've never done it before but it definitely is cool when people do it.

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