[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [SURVEY] change default CPU target when compiled with runtime CPU detection

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2005 04:04 schrieb Zuxy:
> 2005/11/16, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>:
>
> > Making P4 the default is absolutely not acceptable. P4 is shit.
>
> As I said Fedora already did this.

Fedora/Redhat even crippled KDE and shipped gcc 3.96. Should Mplayer do 
something only because some distribution does it?

> Also, remember that during 
> 2002~2003 P4 was the fastest CPU but nobody call Athlon "shit" then.

The problem is *not* that P4 is not the fastest CPU. The problem is that 
P4 is a very special CPU which needs completely different optimization 
than any other x86 CPU. And Intel is moving away from the P4 
architecture.

> Well, just leave it "i686" does no harm.

Well, switching to Pentium3 or Athlon would be more future-oriented and 
would not harm, too.

Regards,
  Matthias