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> That said, I've been reading through the libvpx source for the past 20 minutes or so. Jason repeatedly slams the quality of the source. The code is much cleaner than he suggests and rather well-commented.

It is possible he had an older revision of their code. Since he didn't say how he obtained it early, it may have not been through official channels.

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I had rc8 through an NDA which has now expired (hence why I waited until now to post the analysis).

    > It is possible he had an older revision of their code.

Unless he had a very ancient version of this codebase it is unlikely that it is different in structure from the current mainline.

Adding comments or sanitizing local variable names are only very superficial changes.

Except that he goes out of his way to slam the comment quality. Besides, I think the difference between well-commented code and code without comments can be quite vast, especially when you're inlining assembly, as is the case here.

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