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mpk on May 20, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8

    > 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.

rpdillon on May 20, 2010 [–]

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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