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Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

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305 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 22 May 25 11:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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sylware ◴[23 May 25 12:54 UTC] No.44072429[source]▶
I don't understand this project. dav1d is 99% assembly (x86_64/risc-v 64bits/etc) with very little simple and plain C as coordinating code.
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1. canucker2016 ◴[23 May 25 23:21 UTC] No.44077496[source]▶
The read-only dav1d github repo says 79.8% assembly, 19.7% C language, 0.5% other.

see https://github.com/videolan/dav1d

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2. sylware ◴[23 May 25 23:26 UTC] No.44077524[source]▶
omg... how is this possible to miss that much the point?