[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [RFC] including x264 with MPlayer tarballs

[Jindrich Makovicka]

Alexander Izvorski wrote:
> That's tough:  because of the design of x264 all of the potentially
> cpu-dependent functions are already in function pointers, there is no
> provision to disable cpudetection.  Isn't
> --disable-runtime-cpudetection more of a performance option anyway? 
> x264 will not see a performance gain from that without significant
> redesign, so I don't see that it really matters in this case.  The
> only thing we can do is not compile some of the functions based on the
> USE_* flags at compile-time, if desired.

IMHO it is useless too, it would only save a few (say, 20) KBs of code
and about one second of assembling. I don't suppose that x264 will be
used on systems where it matters.

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Jindrich Makovicka