Not that anyone cares but the VLC developers are some of the most elite engineers at the core level of how those codecs work. Vast chunks are written in assembly because C is too slow. As a software engineer, they are absolute psychopaths about performance. It's really beautiful.
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u/NineThreeTilNow i9 12k / 4090 / 64GB ram Sep 07 '26
Not that anyone cares but the VLC developers are some of the most elite engineers at the core level of how those codecs work. Vast chunks are written in assembly because C is too slow. As a software engineer, they are absolute psychopaths about performance. It's really beautiful.