[Mplayer-dev-eng] Intel C Compiler

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > > Just get it working, and it's great! At least for Intel CPU's (p2/p3)!
> >
> > you mean the Beta version with the horrible procedure to get a user's
> > licence? Test version till September? How did you get it working?
Yes. I've just follow instructions there, made a license bank account and
then I was able to generate licenses (up to 20) for my hosts.
I had problem only with downloading the 40mb file, it was impossible with
modem but worked from 10MBit.
(but netscape-only, it's impossible to download with wget or such things,
as the file download stuff comes up with some javascript/cgi trick, and
only one connection can be made for its url)

> > I didn't even get through stdio.h here and the "premier" support told me,
> > it's just running with RedHat 6.2
> >
> > Actually I think, mplayer should run with as many compilers as possible,
> > so you can choose yourself. Intel C is surely going to cost money, so
> > we should not rely on it.
> > On the other hand, if it speeds things up, why not support it. Heck,
> > even if there were a Microsoft compiler it should be testd for speedup.
> >
> The intel compiler doesn't support at&t inline asm yet so it's not of much 
> use up to now and translating all the at&t code to intel syntax would cause 
> much redundant code.
Yes. But why to do this? For asm files it doesn't matter which compiler is
used (gcc or intel), so we can always use gcc there. But for some C files
Intel compiler produces much faster code. Of course I mean this as an
option, I don't want to force users to this compiler.

> But if intel includes at&t support it's a nice thing.
It will, at least it's planned in the next beta.

Btw I want to see intel syntax support in it, so many intel-syntax asm
code (for example opendivx asm sources) can be compiled for linux.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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