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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Arturo Garcia wrote: |
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> - dont use floating point. sometimes easy, sometimes hard, sometimes already |
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> done for you. depending on the project, this can be a huge sink in software |
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> development costs. typically audio/video projects get screwed here: everyone |
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> *wants* fixed point algorithms to do audio/video processing, but the large |
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> majority of people are fuckers and dont want to (1) help or (2) contribute |
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> their work back. |
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Hello Mike, |
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I have a very close friend that is deep into the bowels of video |
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mathematics. She is analyzing quite a bit of published H.264 |
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code, various Discrete algorithms, and evaluating processor |
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efficiencies with such code. It also happens she's savant with |
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any form of assembler and such. Maybe you ought to send me a list |
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of software you want ported to the Arm family? |
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There just may be some synergies here, as embedded linux is an active |
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area of interest for her, and other embedded folks I know. I do agree |
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that there is much work that should be shared that often does not |
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find the light of open source, not through and intention, just |
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folks are focused on their own little world and do not want to take |
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the time to publish useful tidbits of their work. |
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On another note, have you ever thought about petitioning Google and |
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their summer of work intern program to pick up a few gifted embeddable |
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college kids to knock off some of the code you want ported to |
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the Arm platforms? |
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> HTH |
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> -mike |
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James |
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