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Old 1st October 2007, 01:12   #22  |  Link
Dark Shikari
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Also add the --subme 7 patch, since its been proven quite thoroughly to increase quality in basically all cases at minimal speed cost.

Faster DIA, IMH, and SATD shouldn't be applied yet. One thought I did have was to instead of making SATD an option for all ME search methods, instead add a 5th ME search method:

DIA
HEX
UMH
ESA
HES (Hadamard Exhaustive Search: Better than all the above methods, but correspondingly slower)

The reason for this is simply that Aku's testing showed that SATD slowed down all the other methods so much that it was better to use SAD ESA than SATD anything else. However, SATD ESA is so heavily optimized that its still useful, and not too much slower than regular ESA.
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