[x264-devel] Re: Qusestion : x264_malloc()

[Måns Rullgård]

Ikseong Bae said:
> Why not x264 use to malloc() ?
> I don't understand the x264_malloc() code.
> For speed, Is below-code used  ?
> I want to know the meaning of the x264_malloc() code.

MMX/SSE instructions require 16-byte aligned buffers.  The standard malloc()
doesn't guarantee this, so memalign() is used where available, and a hack is
used elsewhere.

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