Design issues (opengl, hdr, channels, pigment(?))

[Schleimer, Ben]

> >
> > Sorry if this is neive but doesn't GCC already do
> > autovectorization and can optimize using mmx if
> the
> > correct compiler flags are used? (looks like
> pentium2
> > and higher)
> > Wouldn't it be better just to write the code to be
> as
> > clean as possible and check the resulting asm with
> all
> > of the optimization flags turned on?
> Because of :
> 
>
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=116603817419705&w=2
> and especially:
>
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=116591635104447&w=2
> 

um, I see the problem. Maybe it's a matter of writing
the loops so they can be easily autovectorized in the
(near) future. The bonus would be that your code would
be optimized to use mmx/sse/sse2/sse3/etc without any
extra work.

Cheers
Ben