good FPU needed on client?

[Christophe Massiot]

À (At) 20:24 +0100 21/11/01, Samuel Hocevar écrivait (wrote) :

>  > Now to my question: Is the vlc floating-point-calculation-intensive?
>
>    The only piece of code to use floating point instructions is located
>in the AC3 decoder.

Errr, ever heard of MPEG audio decoder sam ? :-)

>AC3 decoding roughly eats roughly ten times less CPU
>than video MPEG2 decoding, so you're pretty safe with this.

It depends on how bad your FPU is. On iPAQ it's basically unusable.


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Christophe Massiot.