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  - CCD reading and mechanical considerations in DSLR
    12/28/06
    Found a very interesting interview of Pentax engineers about the K10D.
    They are mainly talking about data acquisition/reading from the 10Mp sensor and mechanical consideration.
  - About speed increase between x86 and x64, AMD vs Intel
    12/14/06
    When switching from x86 to x64, it seems that Lame is getting about a 15% speed increase. Something to be considered is that in x86 mode we are using some hand-coded mmx and 3dnow functions, and some sse intrinsics functions (well, only 1 function right now), while in x64 we are only using the sse i
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