[MPlayer-dev-eng] non-free and undistributable files in tremor/

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:00:33PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:27:41AM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> > >* or rewriting it all in assembler instead of using builtins.
> > 
> > Will impair readability greatly or even performance....
> 
> No, if anything it will improve perfomance. I am very adamant that
> these files be rewritten without intrinsics. Intrinsics are very
> compiler-specific and their performance is subject to the whims (and
> bugs) of compilers. Asm is asm and will work anywhere on any compiler
> version and the performance will be the same.
> 
> I'm going to be gone for a while but once I'm back I'm willing to
> rewrite the code using inline asm. If it's not committed into svn that
> way I can keep the pure-asm file somewhere else for anyone who wants
> it.. but this seems rather silly.

I don't see why it should have to live outside of our official tree.  I
am sure, however, that nobody else will step up to the task if you
should not do it...

Diego