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		danybittel 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FFmpeg School of Assembly Language What you're looking for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization.

janwas 9 months ago [–]

Collaborators have actually superoptimized some of the more complicated Highway ops on RISC-V, with interesting gains, but I think the approach would struggle with largish tasks/algorithms?

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