Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian
On 2014-08-09 18:26:19 +0100, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
> We also use a fork specifically to work around very wasteful
> calculations in libswscale during 10-bit chroma conversion that
> involve multiplying a pixel by a 2^n value with 32-bit precision and
> then shifting that value down by n back to 16-bit precision (achieving
> nothing). The fix breaks other codepaths that we don't use but the
> performance gain is big enough to warrant a fork.
What is the performance gain?
I'm wondering what performance gain is important enough to justify a
fork in Debian. Well, not just a fork, just recompiling with static
linking can yield a significant improvement. For instance, I could
obtain up to a 37% gain with a static link against MPFR.
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