Browse Source

adler32: add comment for the SIMD code

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Michael Niedermayer 13 years ago
parent
commit
d3f912c1f0
1 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions
  1. 5 0
      libavutil/adler32.c

+ 5 - 0
libavutil/adler32.c

@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ unsigned long av_adler32_update(unsigned long adler, const uint8_t * buf,
                 len2 -= 8;
                 buf+=8;
             }
+
+            //We combine the 8 interleaved adler32 checksums without overflows
+            //Decreasing the number of iterations would allow below code to be
+            //simplified but would likely be slower due to the fewer iterations
+            //of the inner loop
             s1 += ((a1+b1)*0x1000100010001)>>48;
             s2 += ((((a2&0xFFFF0000FFFF)+(b2&0xFFFF0000FFFF)+((a2>>16)&0xFFFF0000FFFF)+((b2>>16)&0xFFFF0000FFFF))*0x800000008)>>32)
 #if HAVE_BIGENDIAN