[gst-devel] Possible to allocate all the buffers at 16-byte boundary?

[David Schleef]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:49:06PM -0800, Stefan Kost wrote:
> yiliang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible that all the buffers allocated inside gstreamer are made
> > aligned at 16-byte boundary? This is to make it easier to use SIMD
> > acceleration for some plugins.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yiliang
> >
> >   
> latest core git version has "--with-buffer-alignment 8,N,malloc,pagesize
> (default is 32)" as a configure option.

Note that this doesn't mean that *all* buffers are aligned.  Just that
more of them are.  So you still have to handle unaligned cases.

Yet another good reason to use Orc for SIMD code.



dave...