From 073ff7dea3a8776d6a96003e9998084db329f892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Ryan C. Gordon" Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:55:41 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Added a note about aligning SDL_AudioCVT data. --- include/SDL_audio.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/SDL_audio.h b/include/SDL_audio.h index a101b4fe0fd02..920da44294487 100644 --- a/include/SDL_audio.h +++ b/include/SDL_audio.h @@ -185,6 +185,12 @@ typedef void (SDLCALL * SDL_AudioFilter) (struct SDL_AudioCVT * cvt, /** * A structure to hold a set of audio conversion filters and buffers. + * + * Note that various parts of the conversion pipeline can take advantage + * of SIMD operations (like SSE2, for example). SDL_AudioCVT doesn't require + * you to pass it aligned data, but can possibly run much faster if you + * set both its (buf) field to a pointer that is aligned to 16 bytes, and its + * (len) field to something that's a multiple of 16, if possible. */ #ifdef __GNUC__ /* This structure is 84 bytes on 32-bit architectures, make sure GCC doesn't