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		eikenberry on March 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dav1d, fast AV1 decoder, version 1.0 "[..] code has now around 186 kLoC of hand-written assembly in .S and .asm files…" This reads to me as it being a PITA to maintain. Cross platform code is usually a pain, cross platform with assembly optimizations is more of a pain. Optimization nearly always makes things harder to maintain, and this sounds like it was optimized to hell and back...

jbk on March 21, 2022 | [–]

> This reads to me as it being a PITA to maintain.

Not more than any other language: when it's well done, it's manageable. When it's spaghetti code, it's not manageable.

coldpie on March 19, 2022 | [–]

I have a suspicion that the president of VideoLAN has a better idea of the complexity & maintainability of this code than you do.

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