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Question: Ok, what was the most difficult technical / programming related component to crafting a mp3 decoder?
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on February 17 2010, 8:42am
Reply on February 17 2010, 3:35pm (edited at February 17 2010, 3:36pm):

Actually MMX optimizations were probably the most annoying -- porting stuff that used the FPU in all of its glorious precision to use limited range integer SIMD registers, while still maintaining ISO compatibility. Oh, if only SSE2 had been there.

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