[vtk-developers] vtkImageReslice performance questions/improvemnts

[David Gobbi]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:

> I had wondered if it was endian dependent.  So you're saying it should
> work for ppc64 too then?  Though IIRC, int<->float is slow on ppc...

Yes, it will work on ppc64.  Faster?  I don't know.  Only the stuff in
the #ifdef i386 block is endian-dependent, the other #if blocks don't
care about endianness.

> I have only tried x86_64 so far, and Instruments confirms it's faster
> (not surprisingly).
>
>>instead of "long long" or some compilers will choke.
>
> Are such compilers still supported?  Or was that only needed for the old
> borland and VS versions?

If VTK sets VTK_TYPE_USE___INT64, then I use __int64 ;)

  David