[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lavc/pcm_tablegen: slight speedup of table generation

[Ganesh Ajjanagadde]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanag at mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> It is still "speed critical" enough for people to retain
>> CONFIG_HARDCODED_TABLES. My goal here is simple: I want to get cycle
>> count down enough so that hardcoded tables can be removed here.
>
>
> Can you explain why? Does CONFIG_HARDCODED_TABLES hurt your eyes? Or is it
> morally corrupt? Or something else?

Please refrain from hyperbole, it has nothing to do with my eyes or
"moral corruption". More seriously, I have mentioned this already: wm4
said it is a worthy goal.

wm4, being a lead of mpv (a main client of FFmpeg), is someone whose
opinion I take seriously and think hard about, even if I don't agree
with it personally in some cases. Many things I did in the past were
not liked by many here, and are still not liked by many going by
recent IRC logs. I wanted to find a common ground, and here was
something where I actually agreed with wm4 even from my own
convictions.
Again, this goes back to what I said: I do things not because I find
it interesting, but because someone whose needs are more than mine
benefits from it.

More generally, I find something very inconsistent here: table
generation is claimed to not be "speed-critical", yet there are a few
people here who still think it is "critical enough" to justify
retaining hardcoded tables, and the associated complexity of the
configure/build system.

>
> Ronald
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