[MPlayer-dev-eng] 0.90 release plans and others

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:21:52PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > imho both projects have advantages and disadvantages. 
> > A big advantage of mplayer for sure is its smaller mem needs - i can't
> > use xine on my pda eg. :)
> > imho merging the good parts from both projects would be a nice thing -
> > there would be a  player which is nice modular, supports every format, is fast 
> > and consumes little mem. maybe it's a bit naive/utopistic :)
> no, it's just dreaming :)
> 
> > btw: what I always hear being said is that gcc3.2 optimizes better than gcc 
> > 2.95 actually - don't know which is true
> 
> gcc 3.x optimizes better, results in a few % (not enough to worth, imho)
> faster c code, but compiling time is twice as 2.9x and gcc 3.x has tons of
> silly bugs, often miscompiles etc.

gcc 3.x makes code that runs 1-10% slower on k6. (10% for mplayer!!)
Apparently they forgot to test on anything but athlons. :(

Rich