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

[Luca Barbato]

Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> 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.

asm is asm and thus is subject to the whims (and bugs) of assemblers
(see yasm vs nasm or gnu as vs gnu^Wapple as)

> 
> 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'd rather keep both, in separate files, and let people pick what's
better (not to mention have a simple way to test which is better with what)

lu

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Luca Barbato

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