Comment by 0x1ceb00da

2 hours ago

What does "complexity" mean here? Computation required?

dav1d is the av1 decoder and it’s an insane feat of engineering. Written in assembly, it even eschews the normal c calling convention to get even better performance.

Yes, much higher computation required to encode it, and decode it, both.

  • He only mentioned decode complexity. Would be interesting to know the average encode complexity compared to AV1.