[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] pic working with x86

Luca Barbato lu_zero at gentoo.org
Fri Mar 25 10:52:32 CET 2005


D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> Rejected, the conditional compilation code looks all wrong, but most
> importantly PIC has no use in mplayer. All it does is make it
> incredibly slow. If you have some reason for trying to do this, please
> explain, but otherwise I don't think we'll be interested.
To make a long story short, some people requested that feature to allow 
mplayer prelinking... And since gentoo is about choices, if somebody is 
willing to avoid most of the speed to have a gain on startup... well so 
be it.

lu


> 
> Rich
> 


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Luca Barbato

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