[vlc] Re: x64

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005, Antoine Cellerier wrote :
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2005, Jimmy Norton wrote:
> >    Why don't you invent a VLC for Windows XP x64 Bit?
> 
> The reason is simple. VLC for windows is compiled under linux.
> Unfortunately, no crosscompiler for windows 64b it is available yet ...
> so we are unable to compile VLC for windows 64 bit (although we would
> like to).
> 

Another thing is that is probably wouldn't be worth the effort. As every
cpu intensive task in VLC (decoding, filters, rescaling) already
massively uses MMX and SSE optmised routines (with 128 bits registers),
don't expect any really noticeable performance improvement (if any).

-- 
BigBen

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