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

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2005/11/16, Matthias Wieser <mwieser at gmx.de>:
> 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.
>

It looks like I have missed the flame.
Anyway here is one of the first and IMHO best explanetion why p4 sux
  http://www.emulators.com/docs/pentium_1.htm
The follow-ups are not so well argumented...