Bounty #3: use altivec to optimize the file x265/source/common/dct.cpp
Issue #140
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As a following action of ticket 137 (https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/issue/137/add-power-altivec-support-to-x265), there will be 3 bounties opened soon on bounty source to promote the altivec support in x265: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/ibm/bounties
Here is the summary of the third bounty: Use GCC altivec intrincics (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/PowerPC-AltiVec_002fVSX-Built-in-Functions.html#PowerPC-AltiVec_002fVSX-Built-in-Functions) to optimize all of the functions in the x265/source/common/dct.cpp. The result should be merged back to x265 open source software (http://x265.org/developers/). Estimated Price: 600USD
this was done in https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/src/default/source/common/ppc/dct_altivec.cpp
the coders who did it should get the bounty.