[Openal-devel] [Fwd: [PATCH] MMX routines for mixing audio (linux) (v2)]

[Stephen J Baker]

Prakash Punnoor wrote:

> I mean, I can do better things with my spare time, if there is no
> interest from OpenAL side...(If I just wanted it for my private use, I'd
> probably hadn't spent the time for the second version.) I heard someone asking
> for more Linux devs, but currently motivation from OpenAL dev side is not high
> to contribute...

I am very interested in this patch.  I don't know enough about SSE to
contribute to it - but I'll be first in line to actually use it!

The Linux version of OpenAL is certainly in need of enthusiastic developers.

> As you see there are other interests, as well, in making use of advanced x86
> SIMD code, so probably my patch isn't enough to address this. You'll probably
> want some global vars and/or functions within OpenAL which tell other function
> which CPU instructions are available. But this is something you or some other
> OpenAL maintainer should design, as I am not keen on writing some code which
> won't get accepted anyway.

It's hard to imagine why it wouldn't be accepted if:

a) It works.
b) It builds and runs cleanly on a wide variety of CPU's without causing
    extra installation hassles.

 From what I understood, those two criteria have been met - right?

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